Fact-check: Was Usha Vance seen with White House press dinner shooter in a 2017 video?
A viral video claimed to show Second Lady Usha Vance with Cole Tomas Allen, the shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but it was debunked as the woman in the video was identified as Arati Desai Wagabaza. Usha Vance was clerking for Chief Justice John Roberts in Washington, DC, at the time the video was taken in 2017.
A video from 2017 surfaced online, allegedly showing Second Lady Usha Vance with Cole Tomas Allen, who shot at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The video featured Allen discussing an invention at the 'Ageing into the Future' conference in Los Angeles. However, it was found that the woman in the video was not Usha Vance. Usha Vance was clerking for Chief Justice John Roberts in Washington, DC, and expecting a child in 2017. The woman was identified as Arati Desai Wagabaza, the founder and then-CEO of a startup company called SmallCircles. The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting occurred on April 25, with Allen being taken down by the Secret Service. US President Donald Trump and others were rushed to safety during the incident.
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