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"Highly trained Green Beret" who doesn't know how to make a proper bomb.
If your only aim is that the explosion looks impressive then he made a perfect bomb.
What would be the point of that? He shot himself in the truck prior to the explosion. If you're just going to do yourself in, what's the point of having a half-ass explosion in front of a hotel, too? He's been described as a "Trump-loving supersoldier patriot." It wouldn't be some false flag shit, because he was in the truck, that would have obviously not worked.
My best guess is that this "trump loving super patriot" didn't like elon and was trying to make a point on what elon was doing to trump. The best way they saw to do so was a flashy explosion out of a cyber truck infront of a trump property. Of course if they loved trump then they wouldn't actually care about maximizing damage to trumps building so they prioritized showiness over destruction. People also light themselves on fire in protest all the time. This was someone who wanted the same without the pain of burning to death so he shot himself before everything went up. If you were planning on killing yourself anyways why wouldn't you do it in the truck.
Did he shoot himself? I haven’t heard that yet.
Huh. And I suppose it's impossible to say if it was immediately before the explosion, or some time before... the Cybertruck could have self-driven his dead body straight to Trump's door before blowing up.
Described so by his parents according to what I read.
I would have at least tried to ram the hotel doors before killing myself and setting everything off. Even with the limited blast, it would have done more damage in an enclosed space.
The whole thing is confusing
I don't think the goal was to do damage.
As others have said: This was likely more about making a statement and getting attention than causing damage.
That said, it is well worth looking into the training of even "tier 1 operator" special forces. Unless their job is bomb defusal they aren't actually learning all that much. Here is some det cord and some plastic explosives. Here is a bunch of math to figure out how much you use of each and for liability purposes you'll need to get a passing grade on the written test. But the reality is that here are the common doors and walls you'll encounter and how much to use and in what shape. And if you are using this in a situation where you don't intend to murder everything on the other side? Get a professional to do it.
So it is very much possible that someone who was "an expert" on blowing out locks and even knocking holes in walls would have absolutely no idea how to make a proper car IED without having access to artillery shells and the like.
One way to think of it is that somebody could be the best F1 driver on the planet and even be able to articulate that they need the camber on their left front wing changed or whatever. But if you gave them a beat up 98 Camry that was misaligned and veered to the left? They would be just as lost as a kid who barely passed driver's ed.
What message? I can discern nothing