Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse

A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is taking place.

The New York City police department said on Saturday the man had been declared dead by staff at an area hospital.

Officials had said earlier the man, who was in his late 30s, was in critical condition.

The New York police department said the man, who they identified as Max Azzarello of St Augustine, Florida, did not appear to be targeting Trump or others involved in the trial.

Witnesses said the man pulled pamphlets out of a backpack and threw them in the air before he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire on Friday. One of those pamphlets included references to “evil billionaires” but portions that were visible to a Reuters witness did not mention Trump.

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    8 months ago

    There’s enough people in the world for multiple ponzi schemes to coexist.

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      8 months ago

      Of course but thinking that Crypto was the catalyst while in 2008 the entire Fiat ponzi scheme got exposed by crashing the world economy and all bankers getting bailed out is some backwards logic.

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        8 months ago

        we might agree that logic was perhaps not maxwell’s forte.