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Kurt Peipel

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So there was a, which is it, you know, again, more of a suicide, but I don't know if a statement, if there wasn't, you know, obviously Elon Musk, Cybertruck, Trump Tower, if there was a statement to be made, they were pretty lucky in that Cybertruck directed the blast, at least is what I'm understanding, blasted up.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So there was a, which is it, you know, again, more of a suicide, but I don't know if a statement, if there wasn't, you know, obviously Elon Musk, Cybertruck, Trump Tower, if there was a statement to be made, they were pretty lucky in that Cybertruck directed the blast, at least is what I'm understanding, blasted up.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So there was a, which is it, you know, again, more of a suicide, but I don't know if a statement, if there wasn't, you know, obviously Elon Musk, Cybertruck, Trump Tower, if there was a statement to be made, they were pretty lucky in that Cybertruck directed the blast, at least is what I'm understanding, blasted up.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So even the glass didn't break, which is pretty fortunate for the people probably around there or inside the hotel. But right now, they have no speculation on the individual. You know, right now, no motive why we don't like New Orleans, we have a pretty good picture right now compared to, you know, this one where all we know is he was active duty military and now has shown up here.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So even the glass didn't break, which is pretty fortunate for the people probably around there or inside the hotel. But right now, they have no speculation on the individual. You know, right now, no motive why we don't like New Orleans, we have a pretty good picture right now compared to, you know, this one where all we know is he was active duty military and now has shown up here.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So even the glass didn't break, which is pretty fortunate for the people probably around there or inside the hotel. But right now, they have no speculation on the individual. You know, right now, no motive why we don't like New Orleans, we have a pretty good picture right now compared to, you know, this one where all we know is he was active duty military and now has shown up here.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Yeah. And I think access to a knowledge, you know, if you talk to like bomb techs in the FBI, they're like, you know, people that don't know what they're doing usually kill them. Like they get blown up or they'll blow out the limb or something. So there's a lot of technical stuff there. You know, the easy thing is throw some gas, throw some fireworks, light it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Yeah. And I think access to a knowledge, you know, if you talk to like bomb techs in the FBI, they're like, you know, people that don't know what they're doing usually kill them. Like they get blown up or they'll blow out the limb or something. So there's a lot of technical stuff there. You know, the easy thing is throw some gas, throw some fireworks, light it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Yeah. And I think access to a knowledge, you know, if you talk to like bomb techs in the FBI, they're like, you know, people that don't know what they're doing usually kill them. Like they get blown up or they'll blow out the limb or something. So there's a lot of technical stuff there. You know, the easy thing is throw some gas, throw some fireworks, light it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

or have some mechanism to light it and then kill yourself, and then it just does its thing. I don't know why he did it. It's interesting that he chose a Cybertruck because it's enclosed, although you could have had any truck buy a cover for it, but that specifically Cybertruck is enclosed. Why he chose that, maybe he thought the battery would do more damage than it really did.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

or have some mechanism to light it and then kill yourself, and then it just does its thing. I don't know why he did it. It's interesting that he chose a Cybertruck because it's enclosed, although you could have had any truck buy a cover for it, but that specifically Cybertruck is enclosed. Why he chose that, maybe he thought the battery would do more damage than it really did.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

or have some mechanism to light it and then kill yourself, and then it just does its thing. I don't know why he did it. It's interesting that he chose a Cybertruck because it's enclosed, although you could have had any truck buy a cover for it, but that specifically Cybertruck is enclosed. Why he chose that, maybe he thought the battery would do more damage than it really did.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

It's unknown, but I assume that they're, well, unfortunate right now is chasing all those avenues to figure out, especially, you know, I know they just executed a search warrant at his home. I think they just said that, and that's going to be, you know, maybe there's some, obviously, computer forensics that they can go through to see what the individual has done or wanted to do. Mm-hmm.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

It's unknown, but I assume that they're, well, unfortunate right now is chasing all those avenues to figure out, especially, you know, I know they just executed a search warrant at his home. I think they just said that, and that's going to be, you know, maybe there's some, obviously, computer forensics that they can go through to see what the individual has done or wanted to do. Mm-hmm.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

It's unknown, but I assume that they're, well, unfortunate right now is chasing all those avenues to figure out, especially, you know, I know they just executed a search warrant at his home. I think they just said that, and that's going to be, you know, maybe there's some, obviously, computer forensics that they can go through to see what the individual has done or wanted to do. Mm-hmm.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

And what was interesting about the Vegas one versus New Orleans, like I said, New Orleans, they pretty much identified the individual and then released the name. This one, they identified and then held back for whatever reason they determined at the time that they wanted to have, they wanted to know the name, but they didn't want the public to know the name.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

And what was interesting about the Vegas one versus New Orleans, like I said, New Orleans, they pretty much identified the individual and then released the name. This one, they identified and then held back for whatever reason they determined at the time that they wanted to have, they wanted to know the name, but they didn't want the public to know the name.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

And what was interesting about the Vegas one versus New Orleans, like I said, New Orleans, they pretty much identified the individual and then released the name. This one, they identified and then held back for whatever reason they determined at the time that they wanted to have, they wanted to know the name, but they didn't want the public to know the name.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

I'm sure there's a law enforcement investigative reason for that. So maybe they were chasing down those connections. Now they have come back and said it. there are no connections other than military and a few overlaps. You know, Fort Liberty or Bragg is a very big base, so, you know, it's hard to, like, just because you serve there doesn't mean you knew each other.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

I'm sure there's a law enforcement investigative reason for that. So maybe they were chasing down those connections. Now they have come back and said it. there are no connections other than military and a few overlaps. You know, Fort Liberty or Bragg is a very big base, so, you know, it's hard to, like, just because you serve there doesn't mean you knew each other.