India, Jan. 26 -- United States President Donald Trump has claimed that America used a secret weapon called "The Discombobulator" to disable Venezuelan equipment during the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

The comments were made by the US President on Friday during an interview with the New York Post.

The US President said this secret new weapon was essential to the US raid, adding that it "made (Venezuelan) equipment not work" when US helicopters entered Caracas on January 3 to capture Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.

Replying to reports on the US having a pulsed energy weapon, Trump said, "The Discombobulator. I'm not allowed to talk about it." "They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and ...