.IT WAS A magnificent gap in safety: how did a sniper install an unsafe roof with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing a simple 150m away? Based on online video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved by a lucky convert of the crown a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.