.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent gap in protection: just how did a sniper mount an unsafe roof with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing up a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- saved by a lucky turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer before being fatally fired himself.