‘Conspiracy theorist’ Max Azzarello, who burned himself to death outside Trump trial, was organ donor — kidneys already transplanted into 2 patients

Max Azzarello, who burned himself to death Friday near the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is standing trial, was a registered organ donor whose kidneys have already been donated to two patients in need, according to an organization that coordinates transplants.

“Both of Mr. Azzarello’s kidneys were transplanted, and he was able to save two people’s lives on the national waitlist,” Leonard Achan, president of the nonprofit organ donation group LiveOnNY, said in a Sunday statement.

“We extend our deepest condolences to Mr. Azzarello’s family and friends during this difficult time,” he continued. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them.”

Azzarello, a 37-year-old from Florida described by friends as a brilliant man who descended into madness, died hours after setting himself on fire in the Collect Pond Park — across the street from where Trump’s hush money trial is taking place.

The self-described “investigative researcher” who wrote troves of posts about nonsensical conspiracy theories had traveled to New York City from Florida — without his family’s knowledge — and had been protesting in front of the courthouse where he bashed political leaders from both sides of the aisle.

“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 wrote in part of a rambling manifesto posted on his Substack page.