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Oz Pearlman on Trump, White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
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Oz Pearlman on Trump, White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting

Variety·Ethan Shanfeld·about 1 month ago
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At the exact moment dozens of armed federal agents swarmed into the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, Oz Pearlman was revealing to Donald Trump the name of Karoline Leavitt’s unborn daughter. The mentalist was perhaps moments away from climbing inside the mind of the president on Saturday night when a 31-year-old teacher from Los Angeles stormed toward the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with two guns and fired at law enforcement. Nobody was killed, and the suspect is in custody. “My son was mostly concerned with whether he had an autographed Pokémon card from Donald Trump,” Pearlman tells Variety from the back of an Uber, moments after landing in New York from Washington, D.C. His usually peppy voice is hoarse. (“Long night,” he says.) Popular on Variety Before the annual, bipartisan celebration began, Pearlman met Trump and the First Lady backstage, where Trump expressed enthusiasm for his act.…

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