{"id":2225583,"date":"2024-04-19T18:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T22:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T22:58:38","slug":"man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing activist engulfed in flames outside NYC courthouse identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2225583&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-turns-tables-on-would-be-burglars-police-see-her-standing-in-the-street-and-find-a-brutal-scene\/\" title=\"Woman foils burglary attempt, police discover gruesome scene.\">man\u2063 identified<\/a> as \u200bleft-wing \u200dactivist Max Azzarello <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">set<\/a> himself \u2064on fire outside the\u200b NYC courthouse during Trump&#8217;s trial. \u200dHe\u2064 doused himself with an accelerant, distributed pamphlets, and\u2062 was gravely injured. A\u2062 disillusioned former Democratic\u2062 worker, \u200dhe sought attention for a purported discovery through a lengthy\u2062 manifesto. \u2062His dramatic action aimed \u200dto expose what he called a totalitarian\u200c deception.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The man who set himself on fire Friday afternoon outside the New York City courthouse where former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> criminal trial was underway has been identified as a left-wing conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/19\/nyregion\/man-on-fire-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that a high-ranking police official identified the man as 37-year-old Max Azzarello.<\/p>\n<p>The man soaked himself with an accelerant around 1:35 p.m. EST right across the street from the courthouse in Collect Pond Park and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/19\/nyregion\/man-on-fire-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> \u201cthrew pamphlets into the air before\u201d carrying out the act of self-immolation.<\/p>\n<p>Photos taken of Azzarello after the incident showed that he was in dire condition as he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>On a LinkedIn account that is believed to be his, he <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/max-azzarello-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know\/\">claimed<\/a> that he worked for Democrat politicians in the past, but at some point appears to have become disillusioned by the entire political system.<\/p>\n<p>In a nearly 3,000-word incoherent manifesto, Azzarello, who claims that he is \u201can investigative researcher,\u201d said that he carried out the act to \u201cdraw attention to an urgent and important discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-we-know-about-max-azzarello-the-conspiracy-theorist-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-trump-trial\/\" title=\"What do we know about Max Azzarello, the conspiracy theorist who self-immolated outside the Trump trial?\">apocalyptic fascist world coup<\/a>,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThese claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that there was a vast \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d underway involving cryptocurrency, billionaires, Stanford, Silicon Valley, Harvard, and Facebook. He claimed that bank failures \u201cwere all intentional\u201d events \u201cto move out stolen Ponzi money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the \u201celites\u201d funneled \u201ctrillions of dollars in stolen cash through the stock market[,] created the largest stock-market anomaly in history.\u201d He claimed that the U.S. government unleashed the coronavirus pandemic to \u201cexplain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-advisor-no-mathematical-path-for-hobbs-to-win\/\" title=\"Kari Lake Advisor: No Mathematical Path for Hobbs to Win\">massive anomaly<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the Ponzi schemes were \u201can economic doomsday device, intentionally made to shatter the world economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>He repeatedly listed examples in his manifesto, and some of his other deranged writings online, politicians from both political parties whom he believed were involved in the stories that he concocted in his mind.<\/p>\n<p>He also believed that the television show \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d \u201cserved the interests of organized crime\u201d and were part of a conspiracy used to by the elites \u201cto brainwash us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his social media accounts, he also posted incoherent messages and sang songs about starting a revolution. In a photo, he was pictured wearing a Bernie Sanders t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>He also posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StopAntisemites\/status\/1781409053370994748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> supporting Hamas\u2019 October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, and repeated false propaganda about Israel.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-wing conspiracy theorist, identified as 37-year-old Max Azzarello, set himself on fire outside the New York City courthouse during President Donald Trump&#8217;s trial. Reports from The New York Times state that a high-ranking police official confirmed the identity of the man who doused himself with flammable liquid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2225584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/fire-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/fire-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}