Man Dies After Setting Himself On Fire Outside Trump Hush-Money Trial
The man who lit himself on fire on Friday outside of the Manhattan courthouse where jury selection for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial was taking place has died, New York police confirmed to multiple news outlets Saturday morning. The man, identified by police as Max Azzarello, 37, was in Collect Pond Park in Lower Manhattan on Friday when, at around 1:30 pm, he threw conspiratorial pamphlets in the air and doused himself in liquid accelerant before lighting himself on fire, according to several reports of the incident. Because there was a significant police presence around the courthouse for Trump’s judicial proceedings, dozens of officers quickly attempted to extinguish the blaze, the Associated Press reported. Azzarello was rushed to a local hospital but succumbed to his injuries later that night. Azzarello had lingered outside the same courthouse a day earlier with a sign bearing the name of his Substack newsletter, on which he had also uploaded the pamphlets, The New York Times reported. He had another sign reading, “Trump is with Biden, and they’re about to fascist …