NV - Tesla Cybertruck explosion at Trump hotel in Vegas investigated as a possible terrorist act, 1 Jan 2025

I'm thinking he desperately wanted to be heard---by his hero, Donald Trump. Not to harm, just to be heard of his extravagant expose in his manifesto. No chain of command would listen to him. But his hero will

I am starting to think that this is really going to haunt Trump...because of the sacrifice ML has made.....
I imagine incidents like this are haunting to anyone when it is discovered that somehow the perp's actions were for their attention. Reminds me of Hinckley's attempt to kill President Reagan to impress Jodie Foster. Twisted for sure! All JMO
 
Shoemate said Friday that he received an email from Livelsberger on Tuesday. According to Shoemate, the email said:

"In case I do not make it to my decision point or on to the Mexico border I am sending this now. Please do not release this until 1JAN and keep my identity private until then.

"First off I am not under duress or hostile influence or control. My first car was a 2006 Black Ford Mustang V6 for verification.

"What we have been seeing with "drones" is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. Our OPEN location for this activity in the box is below.

"China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon for sigint and isr, which are also part of the integrated coms system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.

"The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It's checkmate.

"USG needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is. China is poised to attack anywhere in the east coast

"I've been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone and they are definitely digitally tracking me.

"I have knowledge of this program and also war crimes that were covered up during airstrikes in Nimruz province Afghanistan in 2019 by the admin, DoD, DEA and CIA. I conducted targeting for these strikes of over 125 buildings (65 were struck because of CIVCAS) that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day. USFORA continued strikes after spotting civilians on initial ISR, it was supposed to take 6 minutes and scramble all aircraft in CENTCOM. The UN basically called these war crimes, but the administration made them disappear. I was part of that cover-up with USFORA and Agent [Redacted] of the DEA. So I don't know if my abduction attempt is related to either. I worked with GEN Millers 10 staff on this as well as the response to Bala Murghab. AOB-S Commander at the time. [Redacted] can validate this.

"You need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation.

"For vetting my Linkedin is Matt Berg or Matthew Livelsberger, an active duty 18Z out of 1-10 my profile is public. I have an active TSSCI with UAP USAP access."


Please tell me this Podcaster immediately shared this info with some sort of Law Authority. If it is accurate, and he received the message the day before of someone stating they are driving around with a VBIED I feel he had a responsibility to report said email immediately.

Excerpt:
"I've been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone and they are definitely digitally tracking me.

ETA: Shoemate said the individual initially reached out to him via Instagram direct message and first emailed him on Sunday, three days before the explosion.

 
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Please tell me this Podcaster immediately shared this info with some sort of Law Authority. If it is accurate, and he received the message the day before of someone stating they are driving around with a VBIED I feel he had a responsibility to report said email immediately.

Excerpt:
"I've been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone and they are definitely digitally tracking me.

ETA: Shoemate said the individual initially reached out to him via Instagram direct message and first emailed him on Sunday, three days before the explosion.

I listened to the podcast and he did report it to the authorities, but he didn't do it until after the fact because he didn't know the ML was legit. He received the email the day before this all went down, I believe. Shoemate was blown away when he realized he had real communications from ML. The podcast I listened to was two podcasters discussing this. Both received communications via email from ML, using an alias, one received a text using a signal number.

All JMO
 
I listened to the podcast and he did report it to the authorities, but he didn't do it until after the fact because he didn't know the ML was legit. He received the email the day before this all went down, I believe. Shoemate was blown away when he realized he had real communications from ML. The podcast I listened to was two podcasters discussing this. Both received communications via email from ML, using an alias, one received a text using a signal number.

All JMO
(Not directed at you as poster bestill)
No excuses IMO
If someone receives any type of message that an individual is driving around with a bomb you don’t sit on that. I bet this Podcaster would feel even worse had other lives been taken in this stunt/incident.
 
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(Not directed at you as poster bestill)
No excuses IMO
If someone receives any type of message that an individual is driving around with a bomb you don’t sit on that. I bet this Podcaster would feel even worse had other lives been taken in this stunt/incident.
I can't remember the timeline of when the actual long email was received. I know there were communication from ML to Shoemate prior to that. Now I'm curious about it. I'll see if I can find a timeline of it. It's about an hour podcast if anyone wants to listen. It's easily found online. Not defending anyone, I just really don't recall when that long email was actually received.
 
(Not directed at you as poster bestill)
No excuses IMO
If someone receives any type of message that an individual is driving around with a bomb you don’t sit on that. I bet this Podcaster would feel even worse had other lives been taken in this incident.
Same. My thoughts immediately when i read the article. It certainly sounds legit to me. I woulda called 911 for sure. So what if the email turned out to be false, it wouldnt be on the receiver but on the sender of the email, right? Wow, what kind of wild trip has his mind been on during the last few days... remorseful? Wouldn't he have saved this guy's life by making that call?
 
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Shoemate wrote on X: "It's been a long day, and this post is infinitely less humorous in light of today's events. I reached out to the FBI this morning and forwarded the contents of this email to them. I'll discuss this in depth tomorrow," referring to the Shawn Ryan Show episode.

Just before the episode aired, he wrote another post, saying: "I knew taking this public would insert me into the "glowy boi" conspiracy cycle, especially since I'm an intelligence officer. I had no choice. Dude dumped it in my inbox."

"When I saw his name in the news, I had little choice but to hand it over to the feds. I knew the FBI wouldn't release it, or at least without an agenda attached, so I took it to Shawn Ryan because he has the platform to handle the magnitude of this information and will do so as objectively as possible."
 
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Wow, never expected to hear that name here (or anywhere actually)... The Stage Door, it's called a casino, but really it's just a bar with a few slots and video poker on the bar. Or at least it was, back in 1993, when I worked there as a bartender! Guess it could be all different by now. I forget how long ago that really was! Its entrance was on a little side street, right off the Strip, so its address wasn't "on the Strip", but one wall of it faced the Strip. I think the address was actually on a street called Audrie. It was right there where the Flamingo and Tropicana and IP were -- are those casinos even still there?? Hah, I haven't been to Vegas in many years! I'm surprised Stage Door is still there. It was less for the tourist crowd, more for locals who worked at the big casinos on that corner, specifically the stage crew workers, hence the name. On paydays, their cashier cage had long lines of casino workers that came in to cash their paychecks. And I'm even more surprised that Bauttista's Hole in the Wall Pizza is still there. It was just as the name says, a little hole in the wall place selling pizza by the slice. Right next door to the bar. The Stage Door's claim to fame back then was that they had the lowest priced cigarettes on the Strip. And across the street was the MGM Grand, near where Tupak was shot and killed right on the street in '96, right after I'd just quit working there.

So wonder what he was doing there. Must have been familiar with the place already, not really a place a non-local just stumbles into. Unless, as I say, things have changed since my time there...

I wonder if he just used the parking lot to turn around or stop and get his bearings in the parking lot. I don't think the article/post mentions if LM entered the place or not, just that the cybertruck was seen there.
 
I can't remember the timeline of when the actual long email was received. I know there were communication from ML to Shoemate prior to that. Now I'm curious about it. I'll see if I can find a timeline of it. It's about an hour podcast if anyone wants to listen. It's easily found online. Not defending anyone, I just really don't recall when that long email was actually received.

[…]

Shoemate said he received the email on December 31 and turned it over to the FBI, but later chose to release it on his friend Shawn Ryan's podcast on Friday.

Ryan, a former US Navy Seal in 1994 to 2016 and CIA contractor, is now an author and runs a podcast similar in style to Joe Rogan.

'I knew taking this public would insert me into the 'glowy boi' conspiracy cycle, especially since I'm an intelligence officer,' Shoemate wrote on Twitter.

'I had no choice. Dude dumped it in my inbox. When I saw his name in the news, I had little choice but to hand it over to the feds.

'I knew the FBI wouldn't release it, or at least without an agenda attached, so I took it to Shawn Ryan because he has the platform to handle the magnitude of this information and will do so as objectively as possible.'

[…]

Evans said the FBI believed the email to have been written and sent by Livelsberger, but had not yet conclusively proven that to be the case.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said police were aware of the email for some time, but had not yet verified its authenticity.

'We still have not completely gone all the way through that and verified that entirely,' he said.

'While I understand all of that is out there, I believe it is our responsibility to give you what we know to be a fact, and that is what I will continue to do.'

 
[…]

Shoemate said he received the email on December 31 and turned it over to the FBI, but later chose to release it on his friend Shawn Ryan's podcast on Friday.

Ryan, a former US Navy Seal in 1994 to 2016 and CIA contractor, is now an author and runs a podcast similar in style to Joe Rogan.

'I knew taking this public would insert me into the 'glowy boi' conspiracy cycle, especially since I'm an intelligence officer,' Shoemate wrote on Twitter.

'I had no choice. Dude dumped it in my inbox. When I saw his name in the news, I had little choice but to hand it over to the feds.

'I knew the FBI wouldn't release it, or at least without an agenda attached, so I took it to Shawn Ryan because he has the platform to handle the magnitude of this information and will do so as objectively as possible.'

[…]

Evans said the FBI believed the email to have been written and sent by Livelsberger, but had not yet conclusively proven that to be the case.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said police were aware of the email for some time, but had not yet verified its authenticity.

'We still have not completely gone all the way through that and verified that entirely,' he said.

'While I understand all of that is out there, I believe it is our responsibility to give you what we know to be a fact, and that is what I will continue to do.'

Thank you for posting this!
 
On Friday, Shoemate discussed the letter on The Shawn Ryan Show, a podcast where Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, interviews individuals primarily from the national security space.

In the email obtained by CBS News, Livensberger referenced his ongoing concerns about civilian casualties caused by an airstrike in Afghanistan. The incident he mentioned appears to align with reports of U.S. airstrikes in May 2019 targeting alleged drug-processing facilities in Afghanistan, where more than 30 civilians, including children, were reportedly killed.
 
Please tell me this Podcaster immediately shared this info with some sort of Law Authority. If it is accurate, and he received the message the day before of someone stating they are driving around with a VBIED I feel he had a responsibility to report said email immediately.

Excerpt:
"I've been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone and they are definitely digitally tracking me.

ETA: Shoemate said the individual initially reached out to him via Instagram direct message and first emailed him on Sunday, three days before the explosion.

Yes, the person who received the email from ML reported it to authorities when he received it. I wonder how - or if - the FBI followed up on it and when.
 
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Yes, the person who received the email from ML reported it to authorities when he received it. I wonder how - or if - the FBI followed up on it and when.

[…]

Shoemate said he received the email on December 31 and turned it over to the FBI, but later chose to release it on his friend Shawn Ryan's podcast on Friday.

Ryan, a former US Navy Seal in 1994 to 2016 and CIA contractor, is now an author and runs a podcast similar in style to Joe Rogan.

'I knew taking this public would insert me into the 'glowy boi' conspiracy cycle, especially since I'm an intelligence officer,' Shoemate wrote on Twitter.

'I had no choice. Dude dumped it in my inbox. When I saw his name in the news, I had little choice but to hand it over to the feds.

'I knew the FBI wouldn't release it, or at least without an agenda attached, so I took it to Shawn Ryan because he has the platform to handle the magnitude of this information and will do so as objectively as possible.'

[…]

Evans said the FBI believed the email to have been written and sent by Livelsberger, but had not yet conclusively proven that to be the case.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said police were aware of the email for some time, but had not yet verified its authenticity.

'We still have not completely gone all the way through that and verified that entirely,' he said.

'While I understand all of that is out there, I believe it is our responsibility to give you what we know to be a fact, and that is what I will continue to do.'


Snipped by me: When I saw his name in the news, I had little choice but to hand it over to the feds.
 
I listened to the podcast and he did report it to the authorities, but he didn't do it until after the fact because he didn't know the ML was legit. He received the email the day before this all went down, I believe. Shoemate was blown away when he realized he had real communications from ML. The podcast I listened to was two podcasters discussing this. Both received communications via email from ML, using an alias, one received a text using a signal number.

All JMO

what is a 'signal number'?
 
IMO, Shawn Ryan is hardly an unbiased source. The bit about going into hiding with his family stinks of conspiracy theory to me. Many of his past Insta posts and podcasts reinforce that thought.

MOO

ETA: Not a good look for him, with his CV, to not have contacted the authorities immediately after reading that email, instead of after the guy's name came out and his obvious reluctance ("I had no choice") to surrender it to them.
 
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is he talking about himself in the third person here??
No, it is confusing, but they are two different people, Shawn Ryan is the podcaster. Sam Shoemate is an intelligence analyst, who said he received an email from Livelsberger with his alleged manifesto who then gave it to Shawn.
 
No, it is confusing, but they are two different people, Shawn Ryan is the podcaster. Sam Shoemate is an intelligence analyst, who said he received an email from Livelsberger with his alleged manifesto who then gave it to Shawn.

thanks I figured that out and deleted my post but you were too fast for me lol but thank you
 

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