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Magician's Mind-Reading Trick Interrupts White House Shooting

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Magician Oz Pearlmans White House Correspondents Dinner performance took a dramatic turn when gunshots rang out during his mind-reading trick, revealing the name of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitts daughter, Viviane. The Secret Service quickly apprehended the gunman, but the incident highlighted the heightened security and tension surrounding such high-profile events.

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Magician's Mind-Reading Trick Interrupts White House Shooting

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Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Magician's Mind-Reading Trick Interrupts White House Shooting. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

It's April 27. From Hollywood to your headphones, this is Entertainment in Celebrity News. Today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the Story. Magician Oz Proman was hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday, April 25, when Chaos hid right in the middle of his act. He had President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and pregnant press secretary Caroline Levitt right there on stage, and he was nailing a... A fine-reading trick on the baby's name just as gunshots erupted outside the ballroom. Pearlman had been going letter by letter, with Levitt, backstage earlier, saving the big reveal for the main event. He narrowed it down to a name starting with V, scribbled his guess, and got his spot on as Vivienne. She confirmed it was her daughter's name. The First Lady gasped at the exact moment shots rang out. Turning what should have been a fun highlight into pure panic. A 31-year-old gunman named Cole Allen burst in armed with a shotgun and knives, targeting Trump administration folks.

Secret service took him down quick. No one got hurt, but his manifesto ranted about officials and called out the President with wild accusations like, pedophile and traitor. This wild interruption as such a high-profile spot shows how tense things stay around these events. But Pearlman's cool under pressure kept the focus. Sharp even in the madness.

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