Posted on 01/02/2025 12:04:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The person who died when a Tesla Cybertruck packed with explosives burst into flames outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel was a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret who deployed twice to Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
Two law enforcement officials identified the man inside the futuristic-looking pickup truck as Matthew Livelsberger. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Livelsberger served in the Green Berets, highly trained special forces who work to counter terrorism abroad and train partners, the Army said in a statement. He had served in the Army since 2006, rising through the ranks with a long career of overseas assignments, deploying twice to Afghanistan and serving in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia and Congo, the Army said. He was awarded two Bronze Stars, including one with a valor device for courage under fire, a combat infantry badge and an Army Commendation Medal with valor. Livelsberger was on approved leave when he died, according to the statement.
The FBI said Thursday in a post on X that it was “conducting law enforcement activity” at a home in Colorado Springs related to Wednesday’s explosion but provided no other details.
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. That crash was being investigated as a terrorist attack and police believe the driver was not acting alone.
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...
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Well, at least changing the names of the installations is beginning to make sense - further cloud the issue as to who was where when.
“Stayed overnight on 29 occasions.”
Hunter Biden: “Sheesh. Couldn’t he find a Motel 6 and a call girl? Some losers have no resourcefulness.”
Wow, a pack of “lone wolves.”
Fort Bragg* is a "post." It is not and never has been a "base."
*As it once was and soon will be known again.
Fort Bragg is a big place. I wouldn’t read too much into this.
I bet I overlapped one or the other at various times.
Probably in Afghanistan, too.
Same unit? That’s a bigger deal.
One very interesting nation he served in.
The lie by the administration that none of our military are there is exposed for all to see.
On the full hour special on NewsNation about the drone/UFO story last week, one man concluded with some scenarios. The worst one was “a rogue operation inside the United States with a group inside the government working against us.”
So some military veterans? Some anti-Trump FBI and CIA agents? Some traitors who hate America?
His other scenarios were the Communist Chinese testing the reactions and mapping the haphazard jurisdictional responses and strengths and weaknesses.
Least likely was genuine extraterrestrial or interdimensional types confusing everyone with large array of targets in the sky to mask the big important one in the air.
Soon, a photo of all three guys at Fort Bragg with their arms around their shoulders.
Yeah no kidding. Over 50k troops alone there, not including other personnel. Its almost hard to be in the army and NOT pass through Bragg.
"deploying twice to Afghanistan and serving in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia and Congo, the Army said"
Be interesting to see if that gets the Minitrue treatment.
Did they work for Burisma with Hunter?
I have a dumb question. How is it a civilian visited so many times? What possible reason would there be to stay overnight?
Was he a vendor?
There are probably a million (not an exaggeration) civilian contractors at Fort Bragg in a given year.
About half are in uniform of some kind.
I knew guys who were in the reserves and also a contractor and you had to look closely to figure out what was going on.
It’s a BIG place.
It’s possible they were there for the same training or indoctrination, making being in the same unit at the same time less relevant. There could be something going on there that the Army isn’t fully aware of, in the same way that the USMC has no real knowledge of everything that goes on at the FBI facilities at Quantico.
Now that would be interesting.
So expect such a thing to never see the light of day.
Fort Braggistan.
But not at the same time according to other reports.
Bragg/Freedom is a huge base with thousands rotating in and out all the time.
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