Last updated on July 4th, 2025 at 05:08 pm

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.”
In his writeup, he described how the US Government, from his investigations, has been deceiving the people by setting up smoke screens, and that Trump, Biden, Hilary, Bush, Clinton and in fact, the entire Democrats & Republicans are all together and one, but put up fake rivalry in public.
He also alleged that the Government was using the media to ensure the people were always in a state of confusion, panic, and helplessness, and also said that cryptocurrency was the highest global scam to be perpetuated so far.
For his full write-up and other links he provided, you can read them here.