.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent lapse in safety and security: how performed a sniper mount an unprotected rooftop with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality– conserved through a privileged turn of the head an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally shot himself.