.IT WAS A remarkable lapse in protection: exactly how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- spared through a lucky convert of the crown an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot himself.