.IT WAS A spectacular gap in security: just how did a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from death– conserved by a fortunate turn of the head a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired themself.