.IT WAS ACTUALLY A remarkable gap in safety and security: how did a sniper install an unprotected roof along with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death– spared through a fortunate turn of the head an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally fired himself.