Cybertruck blast suspect was a ‘Rambo type’ who loved Trump, family says
Cybertruck blast suspect was a ‘Rambo type’ who loved Trump, family says
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Exclusive: Matthew Livelsberger’s shocked uncle told The Independent that the former Green Beret was a “supersoldier”. The Green Beret who was driving a Tesla Cybertruck that blew up outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year’s Day “was a 100 percent patriot,” his bewildered uncle said Thursday.
![[Matthew Livelsberger, the man believed to have detonated a Tesla outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, was a Green Beret]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/02/16/Screenshot-2025-01-02-at-11.27.07%E2%80%AFAM.jpg)
Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was “like a Rambo-type, for lack of a better word,” Dean Livelsberger told The Independent. Dean, whose older brother is Livelsberger’s father, Roger, himself an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, said his nephew “loved the Army.”.
![[The Cybertruck that Livelsberger was driving exploded hours after a vehicle attack in New Orleans killed 15 people]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/02/16/APTOPIX_New_Orleans_Car_Into_Crowd_75350.jpg)
“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country,” he continued. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty.”.
Dean Livelsberger said he was aware of the explosion in Vegas, but had not yet been made aware that Matt, as he called him, had been named as the culprit until The Independent contacted him for comment. At first, Dean assumed the explosion had been caused by “one of those big lithium batteries that short circuited or something,” he said. He was relieved that the blast only caused seven minor injuries and didn’t kill anyone else. But, he added, the amateurish construction of the explosive device, an array of propane tanks, fireworks, and camping fuel, left him with a slew of additional questions.
