.IT WAS A magnificent lapse in safety and security: just how performed a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop along with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing up a mere 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- spared by a privileged turn of the crown an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.