The Green Beret who blew up a rented Cybertruck in Las Vegas was suffering from PTSD. According to FBI Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans, the highly decorated Army soldier was on approved leave. The division bureau chief has been appearing alongside local law enforcement to handle tricky questions from the press. During Friday’s news conference, he officially confirmed that the suspect left behind phone notes laying out a motive for the attack. It wasn’t terrorism. He said so himself.
Not terror in Las Vegas
Just because a rented Tesla Cybertruck exploded in front of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas doesn’t mean it was a terror attack, the FBI insists. Despite all the coincidental ties to the ISIS related massacre which happened the same day in New Orleans, they’re totally unrelated.
They do have another common thread, though, which the feds are carefully sidestepping in the press. They both involve the U.S. Army. The Pentagon isn’t real happy about that because it makes everyone blame the failures on Democrat DEI policies. Now, we can blame all the high-profile failures at VA Medical Centers, too.
Matthew Livelsberger’s body was recovered by Las Vegas paramedics from inside the destroyed vehicle. They also removed things like camp fuel canisters, racing gas cans and firework mortars. The Green Beret wanted to go out with a bang. Apparently, his suicide triggered the blast.
It wasn’t done to intentionally kill people. Instead it was meant to send a message. Apparently, to President Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk. The press isn’t spelling that out and neither are the feds. “Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with PTSD and other issues,” Evans declares.
It seems that Livelsberger kept detailed notes of the planning. He referred to his final dramatic act as a “wake-up call.” law enforcement made public the notes discovered on his phone.
“We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist! But right now we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse,” he lamented. Picking Las Vegas was intentional.
Spectacles and violence
“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake-up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence.” Las Vegas was designed to attract attention and has a history of violence to go with it.
He didn’t seem to realize, like Stephen Paddock’s message, they’re also instantly forgotten, without producing any change at all. To this day, the FBI won’t admit that Paddock had an incurable and un-treatable disease which supplied his motive for shooting up a concert. The Pentagon, however, does have a duty to follow this one up. Congress will be making sure they do. He certainly got the attention of President Trump, who did amazing things for Veterans in his first term.
The Las Vegas coroner determined that Livelsberger shot himself in the head before the explosion. His notes make clear his intention was to “cleanse” himself of past burdens.
“What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives? Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” That is common for men forced to kill, as Army psychiatrists are well aware.
Kevin McMahill, Chief of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, agrees. He’s familiar with that sort of mental health crisis. “They’re exposed to things. They see things. They hear things. They feel things and they smell things that most normal people don’t have to do.”
Sometimes they snap. “And the heroes that are serving in the military and on the front lines of America’s policing, are challenged that way. And so I think we need to really pay attention to those individuals, pay attention to what mental health in America looks like.” Not everything that happens in Vegas stays there.
