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2025-01-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Day 2: Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomb Suspect Trained Ukrainian Soldiers in Germany

Follow up to this story from yesterday. See also here.

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[Regnum] The suspect in the explosion of the Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, 37-year-old Matthew Leavelsberger, was a member of the US Army Special Forces. He was deployed to Afghanistan twice, and also served in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Guardian wrote.

Leavelsberger served in the U.S. Army from 2006 to 2011. He then transferred to the Army National Guard and then to the Army Reserve. Leavelsberger returned to the Army in 2012 and was still an active duty soldier at the time of his death, U.S. Special Operations Command confirmed.

The suspect in the Tesla Cybertruck bombing served in the Green Berets, a highly trained special forces unit that fights terrorism overseas and trains U.S. partners.

In turn, Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill reported that Matthew Leavelsberger served in the 10th Special Forces Group and trained Ukrainian military personnel in Germany.

As reported by IA Regnum, on January 1, a Tesla Cybertruck pickup truck exploded near the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas . As a result, the driver of the car died, and seven people were injured. Police found gasoline canisters and pyrotechnics in the pickup .

Law enforcement officers identified the suspect in the explosion as 37-year-old Matthew Leavelsberger. He was wearing clothes with Nazi pro-Ukrainian symbols - a black T-shirt with the slogan "Glory to Ukraine" (included in the list of Nazi ones by the Russian Ministry of Justice and banned).

I owe Vincenzo/Aca Joe an apology. He said so yesterday, and I was rude about it. I’m sorry, Vincenzo/Aca Joe. You were right. I should have politely asked for a link to support your claim, as is our practice here.

Matthew Leavelsberger committed suicide before the explosion. He was in his car. One of the guns was found at his feet.

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Cybertruck bombing suspect wore clothes with pro-Ukrainian symbols
The suspect in the explosion of the Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, former US military serviceman Matthew Leavelsberger, wore clothes with Nazi pro-Ukrainian symbols. This was reported on Thursday, January 2, by RIA Novosti, citing photographs previously published by the suspect on social networks.

In one of the personal images of 37-year-old Liewelsberger with his wife Sarah, published on the social network Facebook (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation; it belongs to the Meta company, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), the suspect is wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan “Glory to Ukraine” (included in the list of Nazi ones by the Russian Ministry of Justice and banned).

On January 1, a Tesla Cybertruck pickup truck exploded near the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, one of whose owners is US President-elect Donald Trump . As a result, the driver of the vehicle was killed and seven people were injured. Police found gasoline canisters and pyrotechnics in the pickup .

American media, citing sources in the intelligence services, reported that Livelsberger rented an electric pickup truck in Colorado through one of the popular apps. FBI agents arrived at the suspect's presumed residence.

As reported by Regnum news agency, Tesla founder Elon Musk previously stated that the Cybertruck explosion could be a terrorist attack related to a car hitting people in New Orleans.

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Posted by badanov 2025-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11160 views ] Top

#1 Red State finds a motive:

While law enforcement announced a day later that they had found no "definitive link" between the two events, that still left plenty of questions surrounding what exactly happened in Las Vegas. Did the man in the truck really kill himself? Why did a member of the special forces do such a bad job of creating a bomb that would cause real damage? What would make someone who seemed to have a happy family life suddenly suicidal? Was there an emotional trigger?

We may now have an answer to all those questions. According to the New York Post, Matthew Livelsberger's wife had left him the day after Christmas over charges of infidelity. That was when he started his road trip in the rented Cybertruck to Las Vegas.

The wife of the Army soldier who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday broke up with him six days before he killed himself inside the vehicle, according to law enforcement sources.

Matthew Livelsberger, 37, left his Colorado Springs home the day after Christmas following an argument with his wife over apparent infidelity, two sources familiar with the investigation told The Post.

His wife — who had a baby daughter with Livelsberger — reportedly told him that she knew he had been cheating, the sources said.

That puts a bit of a different spin on his family life. Before this report, all we had were smiling pictures of him and his wife, with the reasonable assumption being they were still together. But if she left him over infidelity, that would go a long way in providing a reason for him to be suicidal.

It would also explain why someone with Livelsberger's expertise on weapons and explosives would stuff some fireworks and gas canisters in the back of a steel-bodied truck and call it a day. If you assume he was trying to kill other people, that seems like a pretty big mistake. If you make the counter-assumption that he wasn't trying to kill other people, though, then it all starts to make a lot more sense. Authorities are even looking into the idea that he chose a Cybertruck specifically because it would limit any collateral damage.

Further, Livelsberger's uncle claims that despite his wife's reported anti-Trump feelings, Livelsberger himself was very supportive of the incoming president.

The soldier had been deployed to Afghanistan in 2017 and 2018 and was known for his patriotism, his uncle Dean Livelsberger, an Air Force vet himself, told The Independent.

“He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American,” the uncle insisted.

A sad reason, but so much better than the other possibilities
suggested. Moving this to Page 3: Non-WoT and Short Attention Span — Lurid Crime Tales seems disrespectful of the couple’s pain.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-03 10:48|| 2025-01-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

seems disrespectful of the couple’s pain.

Everybody's got a painful story to tell if you dig into it deep enough. I've learned that from my patients and then from decades of genealogy research (if you don't find someone hanging from your family tree, you just haven't investigated enough).
Sometimes we onlookers have to laugh to keep from crying.

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2025-01-03 12:08|| 2025-01-03 12:08|| Front Page Top

#3 A couple of points in the Leavelsberger saga need explication / resolution:
(1) Finding a GSW and a recently fired weapon next a dead partly cremated body do not prove suicide.
(2) Tesla's (last I heard) can drive themselves.

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2025-01-03 12:11|| 2025-01-03 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 If you assume that part of suicide is to get attention, you rent a Cybertruck and immolate your dead body in front of a Trump establishment on New Years.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-01-03 12:11|| 2025-01-03 12:11|| Front Page Top

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