.IT WAS A sensational gap in safety and security: how did a sniper install an unsafe rooftop with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality– spared by a blessed turn of the crown a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being fatally fired himself.