Army Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger, who committed suicide and subsequently blew up his rented Cybertruck outside Las Vegas Trump International Hotel, was apparently suffering from PTSD and ongoing family problems when he left documents calling for the country to “wake up.”
One document shared by “The Shawn Ryan Show Podcast” and attributed to Livelsberger — although according to authorities not fully verified as penned by Livelsberger — was a letter in which he writes about drones from China being used on the East Coast, war crimes being covered up in Afghanistan, that he was being followed by federal law enforcement and already had a massive car bomb.
The FBI also received a copy of the letter.
Las Vegas police also shared two letters obtained from one of Livelsberger’s phones which call on Americans and military servicemembers to wake up and see they are being led by “weak and feckless leadership.”
- In one of the letters, Livelsberger appears to call for an insurrection and for soldiers and veterans to go to Washington, D.C., for a “purge,” starting with peaceful means but fighting and using “any means necessary” to remove Democrats from the federal government and military.
- The second letter expands on Livelsberger’s concerns about American culture, values and wars, praising Trump as “a real President” and telling people to rally around the President-elect, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Authorities also recovered a “surveillance log” from Livelsberger’s phone that he used as a journal for 10 days before the explosion, matching videos, phone, and financial data — including the purchase of two guns in Colorado — of his activity before the suicidal event.
Interviews revealed that Livelsberger may have gotten into a fight with his wife about relationship issues shortly before he rented the Tesla on Saturday and bought the guns.
Colorado Springs neighbors confirmed his wife had recently had a baby.
In recent years Livelsberger confided to Alicia Arritt, a former girlfriend who had served as an Army nurse, that he faced significant pain and exhaustion she attributed to traumatic brain injury. Arritt said Livelsberger spoke of exhaustion, pain that kept him up at night, and reliving violence from his deployment in Afghanistan.
More from the “manifesto” below:
From The Denver Post
