One of the most viral videos from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shows Oz Pearlman presenting President Trump with a white card as gunfire rang out inside the Washington Hilton Hotel.
The video prompted users on social media to question and create theories about what was written on the card.
Now Oz Pearlman has revealed what he wrote on the card.
Pearlman, who is a notable mentalist, toldUSA Todaythat just moments before a gunman opened fire at the event, he was performing a trick where he was going to guess White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s baby’s name.
The mentalist noted that Leavitt has kept the baby’s name private and revealed that on his white card was the name “Viviane,” which Leavitt has confirmed is the name she has selected for her baby.
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Oz Pearlman has revealed the trick he was performing when shots rang out at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“The night was going very, very well. I was warming up the crowd, the VP was loving my show, and I was speaking to the press secretary,” he tells USA TODAY. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is expecting her second baby with husband Nicholas Riccio any day. “The challenge was to figure out the name of her unborn daughter,” Pearlman recalls. The mentalist did just that. He turned his notepad around to reveal the name Viviane.
“I never would have shared this with the world, the point is not to ‘gotcha’ her. But I spoke to her and she said it’s OK to share,” he says. “ ‘This is a moment in history,’ she told me. When it happened, she said, ‘I don’t know how the hell you guessed my daughter’s name.’ ”
Source: The Gateway Pundit
