.IT WAS A remarkable lapse in protection: exactly how performed a sniper mount an unsafe rooftop with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- saved by a fortunate turn of the crown a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks eliminated a rally-goer just before being actually fatally shot himself.