.IT WAS A spectacular lapse in protection: just how did a sniper mount an unsafe rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- saved by a fortunate convert of the head a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally fired themself.