When a man seemingly committed suicide by blowing up a Cybertruck in front of a Trump Hotel on Wednesday, suspicions immediately emerged that the act was connected to a terrorist attack that occurred in New Orleans just hours prior. The political overtones of having an Elon Musk-produced vehicle and Donald Trump-owned property involved also couldn’t be ignored.
While law enforcement announced a day later that they had found no “definitive link” between the two events, that still left plenty of questions surrounding what exactly happened in Las Vegas. Did the man in the truck really kill himself? Why did a member of the special forces do such a bad job of creating a bomb that would cause real damage? What would make someone who seemed to have a happy family life suddenly suicidal? Was there an emotional trigger?
