New Rambo Trump Supporter Livelsberger: Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion Suspect
The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the hotel. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret, likely planned a more damaging attack but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the crudely built explosive.
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Matthew Livelsberger, the suspect in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas on January 1, was a Donald Trump supporter, according to a family member. Livelsberger, an active-duty Green Berett soldier, packed a Cybertruck with explosives and set it off outside a hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump.
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Given the closeness of Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the fact that a Cybertruck was used and the incident took pace outside a Trump-owned hotel, led to speculations that it could be targeted. However, Dean Livelsberger, the uncle of the suspect, told Newsweek on Thursday that his nephew was a "Rambo-style soldier" who was a supporter of Donald Trump.
“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country,” Dean Livelsberger said. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty.”
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Livelsberger had been in the Army for at least 19 years, joining the Green Berets in 2006, first as a communications specialist until 2015, working with military communications systems such as computers and radio, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Given his nephew’s extensive military background focused on technology and engineering and his Special Forces training, Dean appeared skeptical that Livelsberger was the sole entity behind Monday’s explosion, which only injured seven people.
The explosion of the truck, packed with firework mortars and camp fuel canisters, came hours after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar rammed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 people before being shot to death by police.
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Both Livelsberger and Jabbar spent time at the base formerly known as Fort Bragg, a massive Army base in North Carolina that is home to multiple Army special operations units.
