There seems to be no connection between the New Orleans terrorist attack and the Tesla explosion in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. The driver killed himself. He was a Green Beret.
The Los Angeles Times reported:
Officials have identified the driver of a Tesla Cybertruck that was packed with fireworks and fuel and exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving the driver dead and seven others injured
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said they believe 37-year-old Colorado Springs resident Matthew Livelsberger was in the driver’s seat when the truck exploded, though the body was not immediately identifiable. Police say Livelsberger was dead before the explosion from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A handgun was found at his feet, police said.
LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said in a Thursday news conference that a charred body was found inside the vehicle but they were able to determine the identity from the military identification, credit cards and passport found at the scene.
“His body is burnt beyond recognition and I do still not have confirmation 100 percent that that is the individual inside our vehicle,” McMahill said. “I will not come back until I have the confirmation through DNA or medical records that this is indeed in fact the subject inside of the vehicle.”
Officials believe Livelsberger acted alone and the motivation is still under investigation.
Las Vegas police said they responded to a report of an explosion at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday around 8:40 a.m. A rented 2024 Tesla Cybertruck exploded near the entrance doors of the hotel and went up in flames. Authorities found camp fuel and gasoline canisters and firework mortars in the truck bed.
Both Livelsberger and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, identified as the man who drove a truck into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early Wednesday, previously served at the Army’s Ft. Bragg, now known as Ft. Liberty, in North Carolina, but it is not clear whether they served at the same time or in the same unit. Both men also served in Afghanistan in 2009, though officials say they don’t have any evidence they were in the same location in the country or in the same unit, McMahill said. They both used rental company Turo to rent their vehicles.
Livelsberger was in the U.S. Army and served as a Green Beret operations sergeant, who spent the majority of his time at Ft. Carson in Colorado and in Germany. He was on approved leave from Germany at the time of his death.
Livelsberger rented the Cybertruck in Denver on Dec. 28 and charged the vehicle at Tesla charging stations throughout Colorado and New Mexico, McMahill said. The vehicle was tracked around 5:33 a.m. on Wednesday in Kingman, Ariz., and was first spotted in Las Vegas around 7:29 a.m.
According to surveillance footage, Livelsberger pulled into the Trump hotel’s valet area and 17 seconds later, the explosion went off.
The explosion was caused by “very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck,” Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said in a statement on X.
Livelsberger worked as a special forces operation manager for the U.S. Army since 2006 before switching to a remote and autonomous systems manager two months ago, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Livelsberger worked as a special forces operation manager for the U.S. Army since 2006 before switching to a remote and autonomous systems manager two months ago, according to his LinkedIn profile.
On his Facebook profile, Livelsberger once criticized the withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan in 2021. He called it the “biggest foreign-policy failure in the history of the United States.”
“Bet Bolton got a hefty chunk from the DNC and other slimy donors to put the book out,” he wrote in a comment, referring to former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton and his memoir released in 2020.
When accused of being a conspiracy theorist, Livelsberger responded: “It’s not conspiracy when it’s pretty obvious guy made money from the dems.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Depending on his skill level in the Green Beret, Matthew Livelsberger threw his life away if he wanted to punish FELON47 and MAD MUSK.
Most if not all Special Operations troops, who have served about 19 years of experience in Special Ops like he did, are crossed trained in more than their specialty area.
If the dead man is Matthew Livelsberger, he could have done a lot more damage to FELON47, and MAD MUSk. He could have taken out Mar-a-Lago from a safe distance with everyone who’s there at the time if he’d wanted to using a military kamakzi drone loaded with a high-yield explosive.
I suspect he wasn’t rational at the time he planned this. PTSD!
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Lloyd: I wonder if we’ll ever know, though I’d like to know why. CBK
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Thank goodness no innocent bystanders were killed by the explosion of the Musk-mobile. Musk’s vehicles have been known to self-combust all on their own without any help from would-be terrorists.
I hope that the people who were injured in the explosion will make a complete recovery from their injuries.
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A couple of years ago, friends of mine were in a deadly automobile accident, late at night. Their Ford Bronco collided with a new Tesla. The Tesla exploded and both cars were on fire. When the fire trucks arrived, they were unable to stop the fire because of the lithium battery in the Tesla. It burned for hours until nothing was left. The occupants of both vehicles were incinerated. My two friends were doctors. She was an emergency room surgeon. He was a pulmonologist.
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Why would he shoot himself (something incredibly hard to do) if the vehicle was already set to explode? And isn’t it interesting that the body was burned beyond recognition, but his passport survived in decent shape?
And then there’s the New Orleans case, where a NY Post “journalist” was allowed into the perpetrator’s home (an active crime scene) where she happened to find all his electronics conveniently sitting out that the authorities hadn’t confiscated? And a Quran conveniently turned to a page about martyrdom?
Does anyone ever stop to question the narratives they’re being fed?
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