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The man was Oz Pearlman, a mentalist who was scheduled to perform at the dinner and was mid-trick when the shooting began.

Pearlman gave extensive interviews explaining in detail what had happened. He was guessing the name of Karoline Leavitt’s unborn baby.

The expressions of surprise visible on Melania Trump’s and Weijia Jiang’s faces were reactions to the reveal in his performance, not to any foreknowledge of v:iolence.

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One claim in the Reddit post has a factual basis, though not the sinister one implied.

The post noted that Trump had been refused funding for his proposed White House ballroom and then used the shooting to justify it.

This is accurate as far as it goes. A federal judge had recently halted construction of the $400 million ballroom project, which would replace the demolished East Wing.