Man lights himself on fire outside of Trump trial

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All hell is breaking loose in Donald Trump’s criminal case.

But no one expected this sickening scene to take place.

And Alvin Bragg’s trial of Trump was interrupted by this shocking development.

CNN’s Laura Coates was broadcasting from outside the Manhattan courtroom where Democrat prosecutor Alvin Bragg had Donald Trump sitting for a show trial straight out of the old Soviet Union.

The broadcast took an awful turn when Coats heard a loud noise that she thought was gunfire.

“Active shooter! An active shooter is in the park outside the court…,” Coates exclaimed.

But Coates quickly realized she was mistaken as she saw the horrifying scene of a man dousing himself in accelerant and lighting himself on fire.

“We have a man, he has set fire to himself. A man has emblazoned himself outside of the courthouse just now. Our cameras are turning right now, a man has now lit himself on fire outside of the courthouse in Manhattan where we are waiting for history to be made. A full jury panel has gone,” Coates told viewers.

“We are watching a man who is fully emblazoned in front of the courthouse today. We are watching multiple fires breaking out around his body and person,” Coates continued.

Coates narrated the man’s deranged protest and subsequent attempts to save his life in real-time.

“We have seen an arm that has been visible that has been engulfed in total flame. There is chaos that is happening. People are wondering right now if people are in danger. I’m looking across the courtyard, there is a man racing to his aid. There are coats coming off to try and put out the fire. We have members of security details, and NYPD is rushing to the scene. They are trying to come now, officers are on the scene,” Coates continued.

“A fire extinguisher is right now present being put on this man, trying to put out. People are climbing over barricades trying to separate the public, to put out the flame on this man. He has lit himself on fire in front of the courthouse right now, we are watching as the flame, I can smell the air, I can smell the burning of some sort of flesh. I can smell the burning of some sort of agent being used as well as an accelerant,” Coates concluded.

The man was later identified as 37-year-old Maxwell Azzarello who lived in St. Augustine, Florida.

Azzarello appeared to be a gone-off-the-deep-end socialist who hoped that lighting himself on fire would create awareness of the fascist takeover of America that he had dreamed up in his mind.

“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,” Azzarello’s manifesto read.

First responders were able to put out the fire and Azzarello was taken to the hospital where he later passed away from his injuries.

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