Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside Donald Trump Trial

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Source: Newsweek

An individual set themselves on fire on Friday afternoon outside of former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial. Several news networks like Fox News and CNN reported that a man was seen setting himself in flames outside of the courthouse on Friday. Newsweek reporter Katherine Fung said, "We hear sirens from inside the courthouse."

The Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI) for the New York Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to Newsweek that first responders were "aiding a person outside the courthouse." CNN anchor Laura Coates was seen reporting on the former president's hush money trial in New York City and was heard saying that a man had set fire to themselves "and has emblazoned himself."

"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. We have seen an arm that has been visible, that has been engulfed in total flames," Coates said on air. "There is total chaos...people are wondering right now if people are in danger." Fung, who has been inside the courtroom all week, reported that some smoke remained after first responders arrived on the scene.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/person-sets-themself-fire-outside-donald-trump-trial-1892341

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"Themself" was the way it's posted on the site. No proofreaders, apparently.

[emulatorloo]

1. Live updates at New York Magazine

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218876606

[Jacson6]

2. Apparently this has also happened a few times at the white house while he was president. n/t

[petronius]

3. Not to mention "emblazoned"...

[Miguelito Loveless]

16. Show us the article was written by an AI

without telling us it was written by an AI.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Beat Me To It!

That has AI "emblazoned" on it! : chuckle:

[forgotmylogin]

44. I was gonna say...

"Emblazoned" most usually means "covered with." I found a definition of "emblaze" which is also "to cover; adorn; light up" though it can mean 'to ignite' though almost nobody uses it that way. Nobody says "I'm going to emblazon the campfire."

The most correct word would be "immolate" which means "to sacrifice, usually by burning".

[Harker]

4. Look at me, Donald! It's all for you! n/t

[AllyCat]

6. The Omen.

Just like it. What a horrible person to decide to "die for".

[Harker]

11. I can't think of any other likely reason for that.

Ghastly.

[calguy]

7. A true MAGA 'patriot'

[Harker]

8. It's a token of thanks, I'm supposing...

for all that Trumpsky is enduring on behalf of his loyal followers.

[calguy]

19. As Mark Twain once said...

"It's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

How sad it is that some individuals believe that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving them, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is their only beacon of truth and honesty.

[Harker]

22. It's extremely sad.

I had so looked forward to spending old age in a more inclusive, just society than that I was born into in 1959, for everyone's sake.

[Bonx]

20. Nope. Conspiracy theroist. Link to his manifesto inside.

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

[dameatball]

33. So he suspected everyone except Mike Dukakis, Rob Lowe and Lisa Simpson of being involved in the conspiracy?

Maybe a few more. I didn't make it entirely through his manifesto. Poor guy. What a load of buzzing bees going on inside him. Best thing I can say is he didn't harm anyone else as far as we know.

[LeftInTX]

34. What's so weird: He's only 37. Born in 1986 or 1987. So at the oldest, he had just turned 2 during the convention.

He makes lots of references to the late 80's....

[mathematic]

36. It's not so weird: he understands these events through "both sides" revisionism

Before learning his age, I would have guessed about 40.

The mid-90s Simpsons are part of his manifesto and he echos the "not a dimes worth of difference" criticisms of the Democrats propagated by Nader suggests the 2000 election might have been the first one he experienced with intellectual maturity (that is, at least an adolescent).

He makes the idea that Republicans and Democrats are secretly teaming up to screw over regular people into his whole personality and then reinterprets his entire experience including Simpsons episodes he first saw as a child to support that notion.

[Ray Bruns]

25. You know you have to include the video when you post things like that

https://m.

[Harker]

26. I'd forgotten about the dog. n/t

[oswaldactedalone]

5. This trial

is already turning out hotter than I expected.

[joshcryer]

9. Someone is going to kill people in Trumps name.

And there's nothing we can do about it.

[LPBBEAR]

10. Oh well.....

one less maghat moron at the polls in November. Always look at the bright side of life.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. Most of the replies here are assuming this was a Trump supporter,

but I've yet to see anything confirming that.
Did I miss that?

[onenote]

17. It's DU. Where a lot of posters don't need no stinking confirmation. They assume.

And then, they end up being wrong. As apparently is the case here.

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143228065#post30

[Irish_Dem]

27. Trump will enjoy the death no matter the cause.

It is connected to his trial and he will make it about himself.

[GreenWave]

30. Ruh roh, from the very link you provided:

Court records show Azzarello had filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court back in April 2023 against over 100 defendants — including the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the country of Saudi Arabia, Mark Cuban, Richard Branson, and Ross Peron.

Notice which side is not featured? They are but lip service for the most part in his conspiracy laden manifesto.

[onenote]

48. Have you read his "manifesto"? Did you miss these statements?

These statements are just "lip service"? Point to one pro-Trump statement in his writings. There are none. But there are these statements:

"The U.S. government is fully involved in this totalitarian con: To illustrate its bipartisan support, I’ll note that nearly every participant of the Clinton Global Initiative has ties to cryptocurrency, while two of the biggest tech VCs who participated are Trump associates Josh Kushner and Anthony Scaramucci."

"...our government is conning us completely. That Bill Clinton was secretly on (former CIA Director) George H.W. Bush’s side, and that the Democrat vs. Republican division has been entirely manufactured ever since: Clinton is with Bush; Gore is with Bush; Trump is with Hillary, and so on. When they present themselves in public, they are acting as characters that are against one another, practicing kayfabe as wrestlers do.
As it turns out, we have a secret kleptocracy: Both parties are run by financial criminals whose only goals are to divide, deceive, and bleed us dry. They divide the public against itself and blame the other party while everything gets worse and more expensive and handful of people take all the money."

"In the decades since [the election of George H.W. Bush], the angry partisanship between democrats and republicans was all a fascist charade to divide the public against itself while they all ramped up militarism, privatized industry, and gutted social safety nets. Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump, Biden: These are characters playing pretend, just like professional wrestlers."

Do those sound the words of a Trumper to you? There isn't a single positive word about Trump anywhere in his ravings. Do you really think someone who is decrying militarism, privatization, and the gutting of social safety nets is a Trumper? His lawsuit against the Clinton Foundation was a nonsensical pile of conspiratorial madness in which the Foundation was just one of 50 co-defendants that he thinks somehow are tied to a cryptocurrency-related Ponzi scheme against the world. The only thing that's surprising is that he didn't name cartoon character Lisa Simpson as a defendant since he believes she played an immensely important role in this conspiracy ( along with the Doors, Beatles, Devo, and a list far too long to repeat here ).

[Bonx]

21. Conspiracy theorist. Link to his manifesto inside.

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

[Polybius]

35. I soon as I heard it I knew it wasn't a Trump supporter

They don't do that. Most who set themselves on fire aren't right-wing.

[Codifer]

52. Agreed.

If a trumper idiot were to set his self on fire, that act would be on the Fourth of July and would be preceded by "Hold my beer!".

[Joinfortmill]

13. Horrible situation. I read he was still alive when the ambulance took him away. Can't imagine he'll survive this.

[Karma13612]

15. Depends on many things.

The person was obviously in need of mental help.

I had a “will never forget it as long as I live” encounter with someone who self-immolated.
Working in a hospital, in the Bronx, not paying attention where I was going and ran smack dab into such a person. He was ambulating just fine. I could see all his scarred skin and bandages right up close. I was in my early 20’s and still remember his name. He was well known at the hospital and was mentally ill. He survived but not sure what happened to him since I was only there for a summer Pharmacy Internship.

[mahina]

38. Wow.

[Joinfortmill]

53. Sad

[electric_blue68]

55. Woah. Sorry you saw that.

[Warpy]

24. Depends on the location and depth of burns

and whether or not he inhaled the flames.

Surviving burns is a long, nasty process.

I have to think this person had some pretty intense mental health issues that might have resulted in something like this even if TFG had never been born.

This is just sad.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Back In The 80s...

...I had a occasional guitar student (friend of 2 regular students) who got very badly burned in a garage incident. (After 40 years, I can't recall the details.)
It took YEARS of treatment & surgeries before he was out of the woods.
Now an adult, you'd meet few more well-adjusted people, despite the trauma he experienced.
He was one tough & resilient guy.

[FakeNoose]

14. Unless he left all his money to Chump in his will, I don't think he'll notice

Meanwhile the media will crank out stories about this mentally-ill person just for the clicks.

[jvill]

18. Trump is a magnet for the loons and the nutters...

N/t

[Mz Pip]

23. Florida man...

Not surprised.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Was about to post that

Heard it on the radio news report - "Florida Man".

[Alsteen]

29. Given the right circumstances ...

It could be any one of us. Less swearing, more caring eh?

[bucolic_frolic]

31. What a mental state he must have been in, to have offed himself over ....

over the predicament that Trump is in? Is that safe to postulate? So rigid in his mind that he knew what was happening and eager to sacrifice his own life in a gruesome manner. Horrible. I don't know where to put blame, if any. This doesn't even qualify as fighting like hell.

[mahina]

39. I can't imagine the pain he must be going through.

If the goal is to end oneʻs life, that seems like unreliable method.

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. I read his manifesto on substack

He seems to think there is a vast conspiracy that includes both parties.

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

[scipan]

37. Yes I read most of it too. Not a plain maga.

A uniparty believer, along with a bunch of conspiracy theories mostly involving crypto and Peter Theil.

His writing is fairly articulate, though the content is pretty crazy.

[cstanleytech]

46. Pretty crazy? That's like saying water is only a little wet.

[scipan]

47. The parts about crypto being a ponzi scheme

don't seem exactly crazy to me.

[cstanleytech]

49. Crypto is worth what people perceive it as being just like anything else.

E

[SCantiGOP]

50. Right

That applies to all currency, including the US dollar.

[cstanleytech]

51. Correct. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

40. Newsweek fixed their headline.

[pfitz59]

42. Trump unleashed the crazies

Kindred spirits.

[LeftInTX]

56. He had formerly worked on Democratic campaigns and even trolled Newt Gingrich while wearing a Bernie shirt

He was mentally ill. Went down a bunch of CT rabbit holes. He really got into this crypto currency ponzi scheme belief, but also held a belief that any capitalist was evil. He had CT about the Simpsons, movies and music. He got into Qanon theories too.

[Oopsie Daisy]

45. Other than "themself" what would you recommend?

In general, "themself" is the recommended gender-neutral singular reflexive pronoun to use in a headline like this. It avoids making assumptions about the gender identity of the individual described.

[Violet_Crumble]

54. "You're fired!"

Too soon, perhaps?