legerdemain

Today we discuss cliff-hangers, the Founding Fathers and legerdemain.

That was a cute bit of legerdemain.

Serious people should know what an older version of antisemitic denialism was all about: a steady stream of factual nitpicks, logical inversions and rhetorical legerdemain meant to obfuscate and deny the greatest crime in history.

The filmmakers indulge in some legerdemain, having the real-life participants recount the events as if certain facts were not already in the open at the time of the interviews.

Which name do you call a professional who practices legerdemain?