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Would-be assassin got astonishingly close to Trump, had a clear shot. How did security measures fail?

2024-07-16 4 Dailymotion

How could a gunman get so close to presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, coming within inches of killing him at a Pennsylvania rally?

That is perhaps the biggest question two days after an assassination attempt that rocked the world and upended the 2024 presidential race.

Some experts are describing the event as an epic security failure, questioning how the gunman could have gotten onto the roof of a building located about a football field’s distance from Trump’s stage and opened fire before being shot by Secret Service agents. Video and eyewitness accounts indicate that some in the crowd noticed the gunman and called out to law enforcement moments before the shooting.