{"id":2225852,"date":"2024-04-20T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-torched-himself-outside-trump-trial-dies\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:13:05","slug":"man-who-torched-himself-outside-trump-trial-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-torched-himself-outside-trump-trial-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"The individual who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial has passed away"},"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\">28<\/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-torched-himself-outside-trump-trial-dies%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=2225852&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\/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist\/\" title=\"Left-wing activist engulfed in flames outside NYC courthouse identified\">left-wing conspiracy theorist<\/a>,\u2063 Max\u200c Azzarello,\u2064 who set himself on fire outside a New York City courthouse during the trial of ex-President Trump, has died. Azzarello, 37, doused himself with an accelerant and ignited across from the courthouse. Despite rescue\u2062 efforts, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/condition-of-actress-anne-heche-far-worse-than-previous-reports\/\" title=\"Condition Of Actress Anne Heche Far Worse Than Previous Reports\">suffered severe burns<\/a> and passed away in a hospital. Reports suggest\u2063 he underwent a change \u2064after his mother&#8217;s death in April\u2064 2022.  <\/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 Left-wing conspiracy theorist who lit himself on fire outside a New York City courthouse on Friday where the criminal trial for former President Donald Trump was being held has died.<\/p>\n<p>Max Azzarello, 37, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist\">doused<\/a> himself with an accelerant around 1:35 p.m. EST right across the street from the courthouse in Collect Pond Park and reportedly\u00a0\u201cthrew pamphlets into the air before\u201d carrying out the act of self-immolation.<\/p>\n<p>First responders quickly extinguished the flames and rushed him into an ambulance on a stretcher. Photos of Azzarello showed that he suffered extreme burns from head-to-toe. Hours after being transported to a hospital burn unit, he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Azzarello, who claimed he worked for Democrat politicians, was \u201ccurious\u201d about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">social justice<\/a>, a friend of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/19\/nyregion\/max-azzarello-man-fire-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The New York Times. Another friend described him as a \u201cgood friend and person and cared about the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His friends said that he changed after his mother died in April 2022 from pulmonary disease.<\/p>\n<p>After he flagged one of his writings for a friend in March 2023, the friend reached out to him directly and \u201ctried to intervene,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>While living in Florida, he had run ins with law enforcement that appear connected to his mental health challenges, including \u201cstanding outside [a] hotel in just his underwear, ranting and cursing into a bullhorn,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In a nearly 3,000-word incoherent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-was-conspiratorial-left-wing-activist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manifesto<\/a>, Azzarello, who claimed that he was \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 massive anomaly.\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>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 by the elites \u201cto brainwash us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sickening-video-shows-antifa-allegedly-stab-4-trump-supporters-in-washington-dc\/\" title=\"Sickening Video Shows Antifa Allegedly Stab 4 Trump Supporters in Washington DC\">social media accounts<\/a>, 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\u00a0 propaganda about Israel.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left-wing conspiracy theorist who self-immolated near the New York City courthouse during ex-President Trump&#8217;s trial died. Max Azzarello, 37, ignited himself with an accelerant around 1:35 p.m. EST near the courthouse in Collect Pond Park. He was across the street from the trial venue and allegedly &#8220;threw himself into the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2225853,"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\/Max-Azzarello-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225852","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\/Max-Azzarello-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225852","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=2225852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}