Trump brags about secret weapon that was key to Maduro capture: ‘The discombobulator’

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President Donald Trump boasted on Saturday that a secret weapon, which he dubbed “The Discombobulator,” was a key part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the strike to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 3.

“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off,” Trump told the New York Post. “We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.”

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