A separate conspiracy claim circulating on X involved Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie, whose phone call with the network cut out mid-sentence while she was describing a conversation she had with Leavitt’s husband at the dinner.
The abrupt disconnection was interpreted by some as the network cutting her off to prevent her from revealing something.
Hasnie addressed this directly and immediately: the call dropped due to poor mobile signal in the ballroom.
She completed the story on X, explaining that Leavitt’s husband had simply expressed concern for her personal safety in general terms — the same kind of remark, she said, that her own father had recently made to her.
A further claim suggested that a man who briefly held up a card onstage near Trump before the shots were heard was ‘signaling’ to an accomplice.
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.
How conspiracy theories spread
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.
