Why did the Secret Service fail to protect Trump from being shot?
Lawmakers want an accounting for mistakes that nearly resulted in Mr Trump’s assassination on July 13th
IT WAS A stunning lapse in security: how did a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based on video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from death—saved by a lucky turn of the head an instant before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being fatally shot himself.
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