.IT WAS ACTUALLY A stunning lapse in safety and security: how performed a sniper install an unsafe roof along with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing up a simple 150m away? Based on video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality– spared by a privileged turn of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally fired himself.