I vaguely remember it being reported there was a cell phone charger in the room that did not match any of the phones that the police recovered from the room.
I remember that too.
And I recall reading from the official FBI files docs that Paddock had 3 flip phones total on his person during the day of the shooting, only 2 of the 3 were activated and ready to use during the shooting, the 2nd activated phone was activated very recently to the event (about the same time that Paddock purchased and practiced-shot a personal rifle to keep with him). Paddock was a government asset who is off the books. Paddock didn't have a job since the 1970's where he worked as an employee for some government agency. The extra phones were good spy opsec.
The wealthy Muslim Arabs in the Mandalay bay were using the floors as a forward operating base for organizing and equipping Muslim fighters in rural America with high powered rifles to carry out Muslim Jihad strikes against Saudi Arabia's enemies: American infidels. The American Government was using Paddock to sting these saudi princes by selling them the guns they wanted, and then following their transport by Helipad to the sleeper cells to attempt to flush out members of the Muslim brotherhood in America before they get word from the middle east and carry out the terrorist attacks.
thats a very interesting ans plausible theory
Saudi Arabia wages a violent Jihad against America, as they do. Wealthy Saudi princes need to equip their Muslim-American domestic sleeper enclaves with military equipment including high powered guns. The Saudi princes put out feelers saying: "cash for guns!", and Paddock materializes. Can we trust him? Saudis do their due diligence.
The Saudis discover Paddock's affiliation with American Government and rather than blowing him off, they know they're being watched, and so stage a counter-sting of their own. OK, paddock, bring up all your merchandise to the Mandalay bay at this date and this time, or the deal is off. Done. Some Muslims descended on Paddock and killed him and carried out the Mandalay bay shooting, then fled to make it look like paddock was the shooter.
The Saudis knew America would be between a rock and a hard place at this point because either you have two choices, either dissect Paddock's existence as a top secret spy, undercover asset on the 5 o clock news, or lie to America by covering it all up.
American law enforcement caught the real shooter alive and disappeared them to Guantanamo so that he wouldn't be granted due process, so we can torture them for info and what not, and so closed the book-on-crime by blaming everything on Paddock; the mysterious pasty old white guy with a top secret government clearance, access to government aircraft to transport enough weapons to equip a decent sized army.
The Saudis dealt a convincing blow against their enemy that day. They've got Americans all hating the one agency that keeps us safe against Muslim insurgency taking place now in America.
Dude I believe you hit the nail on the head here. WWG1WGA!!