The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) held a dramatic press conference on Friday, revealing startling new developments in the investigation of this week’s explosion at Trump Hotel Las Vegas.
Authorities disclosed excerpts from text messages and notes retrieved from the devices of the suspect, Matthew Livelsberger.
Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren addressed the media, sharing insights into a disturbing manifesto left by Livelsberger.
The writings, steeped in political discontent and profound despair, portrayed Livelsberger as a man consumed by anger over what he described as America’s “terminal illness” under “weak and ineffectual leadership.”
In one message on the note app taken from Livelsberger’s device, he allegedly wrote: Fellow service members, veterans, and all Americans, TIME TO WAKE UP! We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves.
He goes on to express grievances that encompass political corruption, societal decay, and personal struggles. But a second excerpt released by the authorities contained an even more chilling message that could be taken more as a warning:
“We are the United States of America, the best country and people to ever exist. But right now, we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse. This was not a terrorist attack; it is a wake-up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives? Why did I personally do it now? I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.”
Koren, meanwhile, provided additional context to the evidence presented at Friday’s news conference.
“I’d like to just also expand on that and emphasize that these are just excerpts. In there, he does offer additional information that varies on the spectrum in terms of political grievances, issues about the conflicts elsewhere—not here—domestic issues, societal issues, and a variety of other things, including personal challenges as well,” he said.
“We are intending to release those initial letters so people can understand, as best they can, what the person’s thought process was at one point in time. However, please understand there is still a lot more content to go through, and that may change,” Doren continued. “There may be a lot more information that we recover that either explains more or shows a change in mindset at different times.”
He added: “We still have a large volume of data to go through and a lot of content to go through. As you know, with any one of our devices, there’s thousands, if not millions, of videos, photos, documents, web history, and all of those things that need to be analyzed.”
Livelsberger also wrote:
We are crumbling because of a lack of self respect, morales, and respect for others. Greed and gluttony has consumed us. The top 1% decided long ago they weren’t going to bring everyone else with them. You are cattle to them.
We have strayed from family values and corrupted our minds and I am a prime example of having it all but it never being enough.
A lot of us are just sitting around waiting to die. No sunlight, no steps, no fresh air, no hope. Our children are addicted to screens by the age of two. We are filling our bodies with processed foods.
Our population is too fat to join the military yet we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran before 2030.
We must take these actions if we are going to make it past the next few years in one piece:
We must end the war in Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way.
Focus on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must be leaders. Strength is a deterrent and fear is the product.
Weeded out those in our government and military who do not idealize #2.
The income inequality in this country and cost-of-living is outrageous. The number of homeless on our street is embarrassing and disgusting. Have some pride and take care of this.
Stop obsessing over diversity. We are all diverse and DEl is a cancer.
Thankfully we rejected the DEl candidate and will have a real President instead of Weekend at Bernie’s.
We must move on from the culture of weakness and self enrichment perpetuated by our senior political and military leaders. We are done with the blatant corruption. Our soldiers are done fighting wars without end states or clear objectives.
