# Immolating man at Trump trial: what do his pamphlets say? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 19, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516 "2024-04-19T18:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/1 "2024-04-19T18:38:21Z")
Minutes ago a man in the Trump supporter designated area across from the courthouse where the trail is happening set himself on fire. He threw a bunch of multicolored pamphlets into the air, doused himself with something flammable, and ignited himself. What do the pamphlets say? Can’t find that anyplace yet. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/2 "2024-04-19T18:40:52Z")
A CNN team on the ground observed one of the flyers. It said “NYU is a mob front” and had various allegations of wrongdoings against the school. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/3 "2024-04-19T18:40:53Z")
Found a little bit on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com): “Investigators are now fanning out to collect the flyers the unknown man threw into the air, another senior law enforcement official. A CNN team on the ground observed one of the flyers. It said “NYU is a mob front” and had various allegations of wrongdoings against the school.” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/4 "2024-04-19T18:43:55Z")
So, complete nutjob that knew there would be a lot of cameras present? No idea what the conspiracy theorists think about NYU… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/5 "2024-04-19T18:48:34Z")
If that is what it is in the pamphlets, this is likely related to recent students protests, they are demanding that New York University recognize the Palestinian casualties in the Israel-Hamas war, and to cut educational relations with Israel. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/6 "2024-04-19T18:49:28Z")
Maybe, but “mob front?” What does the Mafia have to do with the Israeli-Hamas conflict? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/7 "2024-04-19T18:49:44Z")
> **[I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial.](https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside)** > > My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan. This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/8 "2024-04-19T18:50:06Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > What do the pamphlets say? Can’t find that anyplace yet. I found this: > **[I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial.](https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside)** > > My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan. This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a... @DavidNRockies found this: > **[Dipshit Secrets of our Rotten World](https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/dipshit-secrets-of-our-rotten-world)** > > A summary of the world's largest conspiracy that will soon propel us into World War III and collapse the world economy. This is apparently a conspiracy theory about cryptocurrency or banks or whatever taking over the world. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/9 "2024-04-19T18:51:04Z")
It has nothing to do with Trump or Hamas. It’s some weird banking conspiracy involving cryptocurrency and Hollywood and surprisingly nothing about Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/10 "2024-04-19T18:55:24Z")
Mentally ill delusional ramblings from an unfortunate soul. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/11 "2024-04-19T18:57:23Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > nutjob that knew there would be a lot of cameras present? Apparently, if these sources check out. Sad, if so, or in any case really. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/12 "2024-04-19T18:58:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Maybe, but “mob front?” What does the Mafia have to do with the Israeli-Hamas conflict? This is looking at the probable reasons a mad man could have, IIRC there have been incidents where university leaders send the police or other “mobsters” to control the situation. Now, the level of control the university has over those is mostly in the imagination, but it is part of the “conspiracy” for guys like the self-immolation guy in the news. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/13 "2024-04-19T18:59:11Z")
That’s it. Nobody should be allowed to write a manifesto until they’ve done a complete [progymnasmata](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progymnasmata) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/14 "2024-04-19T19:04:57Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > and surprisingly nothing about Jews I definitely don’t claim to be the voice for Jews The World Over, but … I’m actually just a bit hurt. ETA: On CNN, Laura Coates was doing the live feed on the Trump trial, and gave a master class in staying … steady … while a guy lights himself on fire a few yards away from you. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/15 "2024-04-19T19:05:12Z")
Thinking cryptocurrency is some kind of large-scale scam isn’t _that_ delusional. But I might draw the line at his argument that _The Simpsons_ was all a plot by Harvard to indoctrinate Americans into being ok with organized crime. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/16 "2024-04-19T19:05:50Z")
“Evil must be opposed”? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/17 "2024-04-19T19:12:05Z")
Damn, I had _tomorrow_ down in the pool for when a guy will set fire to himself because everyone except Mike Dukakis is bad. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/18 "2024-04-19T19:18:51Z")
Wow. I pity the poor fool. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/19 "2024-04-19T19:20:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wow. I pity the poor fool. - Don’t you mean the poor fuel? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516/20 "2024-04-19T19:23:44Z")
nypd is doing a presser now. he is in very critical condition at this time, at cornell burn. some were injured in extinguishing the flames, those are being described at minor injuries. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immolating-man-at-trump-trial-what-do-his-pamphlets-say/1000516.md?page=2)