.IT WAS ACTUALLY An impressive lapse in surveillance: how performed a sharpshooter install an unsafe rooftop along with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based on online video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality– spared through a blessed turn of the crown an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired himself.