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Oz Pearlman Reveals Magic Trick Performed on Karoline Leavitt Before White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
Hollywood Reporter ^ | Apr 26, 2026 | Carly Thomas

Posted on 04/26/2026 6:56:57 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Mentalist Oz Pearlman, who hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, is revealing the magic trick he performed on Karoline Leavitt moments before shots were fired.

Pearlman was seen speaking with the White House press secretary and First Lady Melania Trump, who was sitting next to President Donald Trump, and then showing them a mysterious piece of paper. Moments later, they all ducked to the ground behind the table on stage, before Trump and Melania were rushed out of the Washington Hilton ballroom.

ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl later caught up with the mentalist, who revealed what was written on the paper.

“Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, said, ‘Challenged me. I’m having a baby next week.’ We were talking about it because we both have children, and she goes, ‘Can you guess what I’m naming my daughter?’ And so this was happening backstage,” he said. “We were interrupted because the president walked in. And so I said, ‘Let’s save it for when we get up on the dais.'”

Pearlman later went on stage to introduce himself to Trump and Melania, and that’s when he performed the magic trick on Leavitt, with the president and first lady also watching closely.

“I was coming to say hello to the president and to the first lady, and I was guessing letter by letter how many letters were in [Leavitt’s unborn child’s] name,” he recalled. “Then right at the moment where you see it happen, I wrote down the name and I said, ‘How did I do?’ And I turned around and that’s when you see the first lady go, ‘Oh! Is that the name?'”

However, before Leavitt could confirm if Pearlman was correct, a gunman stormed into the ballroom shooting...

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: karolineleavitt; leavitt; magic; magician; ozpearlman; whcd

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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Tomorrow Candace will reveal that “Mossad agent” Pearlman was giving the signal to start the Israel-directed attack.


21 posted on 04/26/2026 7:59:21 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Paladin2

So.. basically... He’s a jester?


22 posted on 04/26/2026 8:52:49 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: gloryblaze

Not Leavitt, the girl was on Trump’s left, 2 seats away, no one in between.


23 posted on 04/26/2026 8:55:18 PM PDT by Tellurian (Any cleverness from a DemonicRat is quickly invested in deception. Ds are world class deceivers.)
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To: Tellurian

Are you referring to “Weijia Jiang, the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News and the President of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).“ - Google


24 posted on 04/26/2026 9:17:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (🦋🌷🩰)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Bingo that is right question I’m guessing there is a trick to it


25 posted on 04/26/2026 9:22:36 PM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance! )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Are you referring to “Weijia Jiang, the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News and the President of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).“

Yes, that's her. She looked like she felt left out, and made exaggerated gestures to be noticed and included.

26 posted on 04/26/2026 9:24:46 PM PDT by Tellurian (Any cleverness from a DemonicRat is quickly invested in deception. Ds are world class deceivers.)
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To: Tellurian

“I wonder who the girl 2 seats away from Trump was”

Me too.

I think she later came to “the sticks” to explain what was happening/going to happen.

Well spoken she was...


27 posted on 04/26/2026 9:29:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Paladin2

see post 26


28 posted on 04/26/2026 9:33:59 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (🦋🌷🩰)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Yep, that's the chicklet I saw. She did a great job.
29 posted on 04/26/2026 9:41:03 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Carly Thomas needs to get facts and or stop with lies


30 posted on 04/26/2026 11:55:43 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: going hot

Why gunman wasn’t hurt? We know he exchanged fire with SS because one of them was wearing a vest and not injured, as per DJT description of what happened. The perpetrator was shown to be on the floor and apparently not physically damaged. That begs the question: can the SS agents shoot straight? Do they train with real bullets or with paintball guns? We know they shave their heads but are they all cross-eyed?


31 posted on 04/27/2026 4:27:22 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: Tellurian

That is the woman who tried to get inside trumps protective bubble as they were leading him away. She was blocked


32 posted on 04/27/2026 4:38:50 AM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: Tellurian

I actually felt sorry for her. I suspect that the main job of the President of the WHCA is to plan and execute the dinner. Having it blow up in such a fashion has to be devastating after a year of working on it.

Jiang was a beat reporter in Baltimore a few years ago. As I recall she was a solid reporter. I’ll bet that she’s gotten a new and better opinion of Trump after this debacle.


33 posted on 04/27/2026 4:46:02 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: gloryblaze
I am glad to find out what that note was all about.

I'm more interested in how he does it.

34 posted on 04/27/2026 4:51:55 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

I haven’t seen whether he was right


35 posted on 04/27/2026 5:03:46 AM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: RummyChick

I’ve seen him a couple times before and have no idea how he does it. But he’s always right


36 posted on 04/27/2026 5:13:50 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: cyclotic

It is surely a memorable experience, crawling toward safety literally on hands and knees in what is certainly an outrageously expensive gold dress.

Thus fled the head table participants not important enough to be escorted away on foot by the secret service


37 posted on 04/27/2026 5:14:26 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’m amazed by him too. Some of the stuff he does with the football teams is astounding.

Just one of many:

https://youtu.be/tMeMMKY9678?si=RFmAH-MbmrHQ2XMa

EC


38 posted on 04/27/2026 6:02:41 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: Texas_Jarhead

How is he a scammer? He’s quite open about how he does what he does. He doesn’t profess to be a “mind-reader.”


39 posted on 04/27/2026 6:32:03 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Tellurian

The oriental gal is Weijia Jiang, CBS.


40 posted on 04/27/2026 7:32:36 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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