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I was performing right then for the president, the press secretary, and the first lady. It’s kind of like *** pivotal moment in the trick where you’re just about to do the reveal of like wow, and we hear commotion. I see everyone swarming one table. I didn’t hear any shots or see what looked like *** shooter. I thought there was about to be *** bomb. Like I really very much thought, oh my God, it’s about to explode because of the way that it was being approached. It was incredibly surreal. I get down, I kind of get down on all fours facing left, stage left. They rush across to get POTUS and the president gets like taken down by Secret Service and we don’t know what’s going on and he came down. You can look at the video, I don’t know the distance, but less than 1 ft away from me, I’ll never forget the image for my whole life because I’m on all fours turn like this. They bring the president down directly in front of me and we just look at each other for about 2 seconds and my mind, obviously this is like *** huge adrena it’s just like, oh no, are we about to die? Uh, because I thought it was about to explode. I thought that was really my instinct. Then I heard what sounded like I thought were shots, so at that point my mind shifted. I also wasn’t sure if he was hurt. They picked him up kind of and they go out and then we’re on all fours and I see. and I see one or two of the other people that are at the dais and we’re like, are they shooting? Like we don’t know what’s going on, so I don’t want to get up so we army crawl. She went first and the rest of us army crawl out because we didn’t want to stand up because I don’t want to get hit. I thought there might be somebody still shooting.
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Mentalist describes tense moment as gunman charged White House Correspondents’ Dinner
For Oz Pearlman, Saturday began like any other day for the famed mentalist. He had been tasked with entertaining at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. While Pearlman was performing a trick, it became clear that something wasn’t right.“I was performing right then for the president, the press secretary and the first lady. It’s kind of like a pivotal moment in the trick when you’re just about to do the reveal — like ‘wow.’ And we hear commotion,” Pearlman recalled Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash.That commotion came after a gunman charged past a security checkpoint outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel as shots were fired. Pearlman described the harrowing moments, saying, “They bring the president down directly in front of me, and we just look at each other for about two seconds, and my mind, obviously, this is like a huge adrenaline, it’s just like, ‘Oh no, are we about to die?'”President Donald Trump was not harmed in the incident.The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, is expected to be arraigned in federal court Monday.In writings shared with family just prior to the shooting, the suspect described himself as “the friendly federal assassin,” a source told CNN.”This is moving these types of individuals from intent to action,” former Secret Service Agent Jonathan Wackrow told the outlet. “And that new threat vector is very concerning to the FBI, the Secret Service, and anybody who engages in, you know, protective responsibility.”Allen’s family notified police of his writings, the White House said, just minutes before the incident took place.
For Oz Pearlman, Saturday began like any other day for the famed mentalist. He had been tasked with entertaining at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
While Pearlman was performing a trick, it became clear that something wasn’t right.
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“I was performing right then for the president, the press secretary and the first lady. It’s kind of like a pivotal moment in the trick when you’re just about to do the reveal — like ‘wow.’ And we hear commotion,” Pearlman recalled Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash.
That commotion came after a gunman charged past a security checkpoint outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel as shots were fired.
Pearlman described the harrowing moments, saying, “They [The Secret Service] bring the president down directly in front of me, and we just look at each other for about two seconds, and my mind, obviously, this is like a huge adrenaline, it’s just like, ‘Oh no, are we about to die?'”
President Donald Trump was not harmed in the incident.
The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, is expected to be arraigned in federal court Monday.
In writings shared with family just prior to the shooting, the suspect described himself as “the friendly federal assassin,” a source told CNN.
“This is moving these types of individuals from intent to action,” former Secret Service Agent Jonathan Wackrow told the outlet. “And that new threat vector is very concerning to the FBI, the Secret Service, and anybody who engages in, you know, protective responsibility.”
Allen’s family notified police of his writings, the White House said, just minutes before the incident took place.
