Florida Man Who Set Himself on Fire Outside Trump Trial Has Died
Donald Trump Criminal Trial Man Declared Dead ... After Self-Immolation
The man who lit himself ablaze outside the Trump trial courthouse in NYC has died.
Max Azzarello was rushed in critical condition to a hospital Friday after he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire outside Manhattan Criminal Court, where jury selection for Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial was winding down.
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Azzarello, an alleged conspiracy theorist, died later that night from massive burns to his body.
Before carrying out his self-immolation, the Florida resident reportedly traveled to a SoHo hotel, where he booked a room. Then he went over to a park near the courthouse and threw a bunch of pamphlets into the air while shouting incoherently before putting his deadly plan into motion.
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CNN reporters were present for the shocking display of flames engulfing Azzarello, filming it all with their cameras.
The insanity didn't stop there ... a rambling, politically-charged manifesto surfaced that was seemingly tied to Azzarello, who apparently had his own "Substack" page titled The Ponzi Papers.
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On the page, Azzarello purportedly said he was going to set himself on fire outside the Trump trial to "draw attention to an urgent and important discovery."
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He then allegedly went off on a tangent about being victims of a totalitarian con and the government that "is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup."