New Year started in New Orleans, LA, with a terrorist attack on the public by an alleged radical Islamic terrorist named Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The same day another explosion rocked the exterior of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Matthew Livelsberger, a U.S. Army Green Beret, was identified as the person inside the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the hotel. The incident sparked a flurry of speculation over Livelsberger’s motive and whether something beyond the obvious is at play.
Over the past weekend, some bombshell revelations about the motive behind the Las Vegas explosion came to the surface, reportedly from Livelsberger himself. Sam Shoemate, a military veteran and intelligence officer, made news by showing an email he had received from Livelsberger a few days before the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Vegas. In the email, Livelsberger made some mindblowing statements such as secret defense technology, his own state of mind and safety concerns, and what happened in Afghanistan in 2019. It’s the latter that seems to have sparked the speculation that Livelsberger was being hunted down apparently by the government agencies to silence him before he could reveal more to the world.
The email from Livelsberger, dated December 29, 2024, shows him stating that he has been followed for over a week, likely by the homeland security department or the FBI. He goes on to say that he is armed and trying to make it to Mexico though he knows that they are digitally tracking him.
Livelsberger then states that he knows of the war crimes the American military committed in Nimruz Province of Afghanistan in 2019. Acknowledging that he was part of these bombings, Livelsberger names the U.S. agencies that were behind the bombings of over a hundred buildings that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day. These agencies include: the Department of Defense (DOD), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Wondering whether his “abduction attempt” was related to his knowledge of and his involvement in this cover-up, Livelsberger names an agent and a commander who could verify this information. Both names were redacted before the email was made public.
Over the weekend, Shoemate sat for an interview with Shawn Ryan, a former US Navy Seal and CIA contractor. The two analyzed the Las Vegas explosion and the things that don’t add up in the official story of the incident. Shoemate shared details of receiving the email as well as other messages from Livelsberger via the Signal messenger installed on his phone. He also made another bombshell revelation as he showed his Signal communication with Livelsberger on December 29. The safety number of Livelsberger on the app changed after his reported death shortly before the explosion, the implication being that either someone broke into his phone immediately after it or – a more startling speculation by Ryan – the body found in the exploding Tesla vehicle was not Livelsberger’s; that Livelsberger may still be alive. The full video of the Ryan’s interview with Shoemate is included here.
The details shared by Shoemate on Shawn Ryan’s show and the discussion of the two men with military/intelligence expertise seem to suggest that there is a much bigger story behind Livelsberger’s alleged death that involves the federal agencies. Was Livelsberger really on the run from the feds? Who changed the safety number on Livelsberger’s Signal app? Will Trump’s incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth investigate the Afghanistan bombings mentioned in Livelsberger’s email? Will the full truth of this case come out? These and more such questions remain shrouded in mystery for now.