Conspiracist sets himself on fire outside of Trump trial
(Washington Post) A man lit himself on fire near the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump was being criminally tried, eyewitnesses told The Washington Post on Friday.
CNN chief legal analyst Laura Coates was reporting live on air outside the courthouse at 1:35 p.m. when she touched her earpiece, turned off-camera and said that a man had set fire to himself in nearby Collect Pond Park.
The CNN camera crew turned the camera to show two pillars of flame raging just feet away.
“We are watching a man who is fully emblazoned,” Coates said, adding that she could see an arm fully on fire.
Coates said that bystanders and New York Police Department officers were rushing to try to extinguish him.
Julie Berman, 56, a Manhattan resident who came down to the plaza to photograph protesters, said she saw the man set himself on fire. He had a sign saying something about Trump and Biden working together to orchestrate a “coup,” she said, and another alleging some kind of “Ponzi scheme.”
The man told her to get back and then doused himself with gasoline, threw some fliers in the air and then doused himself again before flicking a lighter and catching fire, she said. She was about 15 feet away.
“It happened so fast and took my mind so long to catch up," Berman said, adding she thought the liquid was water initially.
A person familiar with the investigation said the man threw brightly colored fliers in the air, one of which said “NYU is a mob front” and another which talked about the goal of “abolishing the criminal government” and mentions the CIA.
[i]If interested in seeing the depths of conspiracy, here's his take on the world. It's mind-bending to see how far down the rabbit hole some can go.
https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/dipshit-secrets-of-our-rotten-world[/i]
His name is Maxwell Azzarello. Critical condition. CNN was airing live when it happened. The reporter described what she was seeing.
This was his "announcement."
"My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan."
"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."
CNN chief legal analyst Laura Coates was reporting live on air outside the courthouse at 1:35 p.m. when she touched her earpiece, turned off-camera and said that a man had set fire to himself in nearby Collect Pond Park.
The CNN camera crew turned the camera to show two pillars of flame raging just feet away.
“We are watching a man who is fully emblazoned,” Coates said, adding that she could see an arm fully on fire.
Coates said that bystanders and New York Police Department officers were rushing to try to extinguish him.
Julie Berman, 56, a Manhattan resident who came down to the plaza to photograph protesters, said she saw the man set himself on fire. He had a sign saying something about Trump and Biden working together to orchestrate a “coup,” she said, and another alleging some kind of “Ponzi scheme.”
The man told her to get back and then doused himself with gasoline, threw some fliers in the air and then doused himself again before flicking a lighter and catching fire, she said. She was about 15 feet away.
“It happened so fast and took my mind so long to catch up," Berman said, adding she thought the liquid was water initially.
A person familiar with the investigation said the man threw brightly colored fliers in the air, one of which said “NYU is a mob front” and another which talked about the goal of “abolishing the criminal government” and mentions the CIA.
[i]If interested in seeing the depths of conspiracy, here's his take on the world. It's mind-bending to see how far down the rabbit hole some can go.
https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/dipshit-secrets-of-our-rotten-world[/i]
His name is Maxwell Azzarello. Critical condition. CNN was airing live when it happened. The reporter described what she was seeing.
This was his "announcement."
"My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan."
"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."
