Overview
- In an Oval Office interview, President Trump told the New York Post that a classified system he called the Discombobulator made Venezuelan defenses fail and prevented rocket launches during the Jan. 3 raid.
- Accounts shared by the White House press secretary from an unnamed Venezuelan guard described sudden radar outages and severe symptoms such as nosebleeds and vomiting blood, which remain unverified.
- CNN reported a senior U.S. official’s view that Trump may be conflating multiple capabilities, saying U.S. forces used cyber tools to disable defenses and existing acoustic systems to disorient personnel.
- Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are being held in a Brooklyn federal facility on narcotics and weapons-related charges as they await trial.
- The White House and Pentagon have declined to detail the system or legal framework, while reports describe roughly eight helicopters inserting about 20 U.S. troops with no American fatalities.