.IT WAS ACTUALLY A sensational gap in protection: how did a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- spared by a blessed convert of the crown a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally fired himself.