A man who has been identified as Max Azzarello set himself on fire outside the courtroom where former president Donald Trump is standing trial in Manhattan.
Officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) rushed to extinguish the flames off Azzarello after he set himself ablaze outside the courthouse where Trump is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to an adult film actress during the 2016 election.
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Before Max Azzarello set himself on fire, he was pictured holding a sign that included a link to a Substack site. A letter on the site was entitled, “I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial.”
Read Max Azzarello’s full letter below
“My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan,” his manifesto read.
“This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
“We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
“These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie.”
“If you follow this story and the links below, you will discover the rotten truth of ‘post-truth America’. You will learn the scariest and stupidest story in world history. And you will realize that we are all in a desperate state of emergency that requires your action.”
“To my friends and family, witnesses and first responders, I deeply apologize for inflicting this pain upon you. But I assure you it is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government intends to inflict.”
“Because these words are true, this is an act of revolution.”
