The president may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn't exist, a senior US official told CNN.
President Donald Trump said US military forces used a weapon that he referred to as "the discombobulator" during the US operation in Caracas to remove former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power.
-- Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) Jan 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Dummkopf Trumpf may have been stupidly referring to either the "StunRay" blinder or the "Dazzler," a portable handheld Directed-Energy Weapon (DEW) that induces nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and temporary blindness in living creatures by scrambling their brain cells.

The USSS have these non-lethal DEWs in their arsenal, so the FBI, Delta Force, the USN Seal Teams does too.
In the 2 May 2011 US commando raid to "capture" Osama Bin Laden, a Seal Team Six member did not deploy such a DEW against him and killed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks before he could face justice in SDNY.
"The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, says the fact that Osama Bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed left him with a "very uncomfortable feeling."
The Russians and Chinese have versions of these DEWs as well. The "Havana Syndrome" may have been caused by a portable DEW using high-frequency microwaves: Russian DEWs
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Trump Claims 'Discombobulator' Used to Capture Maduro
The president may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn't exist, a senior US official told CNN.
From the same CNN, two weeks ago:
www.cnn.com - Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome - CNN, 2026-01-13
|------- The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.
A division of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, purchased the device for millions of dollars in the waning days of the Biden administration, using funding provided by the Defense Department, according to two of the sources. Officials paid "eight figures" for the device, these people said, declining to offer a more specific number.
The device is still being studied and there is ongoing debate " and in some quarters of government, skepticism " over its link to the roughly dozens of anomalous health incidents that remain officially unexplained. ...
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If you've seen several 60 Minutes reports on the subject of Havana Syndrome, you may now understand why USGOV was reluctant to confirm the weapon capabilities, as officially the "investigation continued" but was for the most part "dismissed" as psychological in nature.
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