Max Azzarello DIES just hours after setting himself on fire while protesting outside Trump’s hush money trial in NYC – as friends reveal the heartbreaking moment that triggered his spiral into self-destruction [Video]

23:51 EDT 19 Apr 2024, updated 02:46 EDT 20 Apr 2024

The man who set himself on fire outside Trump’s hush money trial in New York has died from his injuries, as his friends and neighbors said it was the death of his mother two years ago that made him increasingly unstable.

Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old from St. Augustine, Florida, died Friday night hours after the shocking display, said to be ‘an ‘extreme act of protest…[against] a totalitarian con, and our own government’ on his own Substack.

The Florida native was a graduate from Rutgers University, where he received a master’s degree in city and regional planning in 2012, friends said.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital’s burn unit where died just before 11 pm, sources familiar with the matter added Friday night – hours after was seen throwing a stack of pamphlets that included a link to his conspiracy-laden Substack seconds before igniting.

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