.IT WAS A remarkable lapse in protection: how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsafe roof with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was standing a simple 150m away? Based on online video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality– conserved by a lucky convert of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot themself.