.IT WAS An impressive lapse in security: just how performed a sniper mount an unprotected roof with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a simple 150m away? Based upon online video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- saved by a privileged convert of the crown an immediate just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.