.IT WAS A remarkable gap in safety and security: just how carried out a sniper install an unsecured rooftop with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a simple 150m away? Based upon online video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from death– saved through a blessed turn of the crown a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer before being actually fatally fired himself.