Animation reveals how Donald Trump could have been shot 'right in the head' if he hadn't turned to look at immigration chart

Donald Trump mightiness not beryllium preparing to judge nan Republican information this week successful Milwaukee had he not turned his caput to look astatine an migration statistic floor plan during his now infamous rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, this past Saturday.

Seconds aft nan ex-president turned from nan podium, crazed gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, opened fire, wounding Trump successful nan receptor and sidesplitting retired occurrence chief Corey Comperatore, 50. 

Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was formerly Trump's physician, was quoted by The New York Times arsenic saying that Trump believes it was nan truth that he was talking astir nan confederate border crisis that saved his life. 

'He goes, "The separator patrol saved my life." He said, "If I hadn't pointed astatine that floor plan and turned my caput to look astatine it that slug would person deed maine correct successful nan head.' 

Crooks was swiftly gunned down by Secret Service antagonistic snipers but questions linger astir nan agency's security protocols successful nan aftermath of nan shooting. 

A shocking caller animation shows conscionable really adjacent Trump came to decease has nan slug whizzed past his encephalon and impacted his ear.

With truthful galore questions remaining surrounding nan shooting, including Crooks' nonstop location, this illustration is based connected what is known astatine this time. 

However, it was only Trump's receptor that was damaged. 

'I'm not expected to beryllium here, I'm expected to beryllium dead. By luck aliases by God, galore group are saying it's by God, I'm still here,' Trump later told his hometown newspaper The New York Post. 

For his part, Trump credited nan Secret Service pinch really they handled nan removal erstwhile speaking to nan Post saying they did a 'fantastic job.'

'It's surreal for each of us,' he added. 

A seasoned of Israel's Special Operations Aaron Cohen reiterated this position successful an question and reply pinch Fox News. 

'Snipers are typically trained to sprout into nan cerebral cortex of nan cerebellum astatine nan apical of nan encephalon stem,' he said. 

'It incapacitates you, it keeps your hands from moving. … It’s astir nan region of nan shot. One 100 30 yards. That’s a putt. Anyone tin put a two, two, three, optic connected a target from that region and deed it. It’s not a difficult changeable to make.'

'The truth that he conscionable happened to beryllium turned this measurement pinch that changeable coming successful is what saved his life,' Cohen added.  

Meanwhile, Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has been slammed for her 'stupidity' and 'BS excuse' that snipers were not coming connected nan tile utilized by would-be assassin Thomas Crooks because it was 'too sloped'.

Speaking to ABC News connected Tuesday, Cheatle claimed that agents were not positioned connected apical of nan sloped building, deeming it excessively vulnerable - contempt images from nan segment showing Secret Service snipers group up connected a sloped tile down wherever Trump was delivering his speech. 

Former Army Ranger Sean Powell was among those who registered his outrage pinch Cheatle's 'BS excuse' a rage filled tweet. 

'Holy s***. A sloped roof? That is simply a full BS excuse,' he wrote.

'Our snipers utilized to group successful connected upland tops successful Afghanistan. On nan down slopes if request be. The stupidity of this connection explains truthful overmuch of why s*** deed nan instrumentality that day. Absolute incompetence,' he added. 

Following Cheatle's bizarre comments, a erstwhile US legislator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint besides weighed successful saying: 'This sad excuse astir defies believability.' 

While erstwhile Secret Service supplier Dan Bongino claimed Thomas Crooks' vantage constituent was owed to beryllium covered but nary 1 showed up while nan agency's head Kimberly Cheatle received backlash for her 'BS excuse' that nan tile was 'too sloped' for snipers.

The governmental TV and power commentator, who worked arsenic an supplier for complete a decade, connected Tuesday told Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast Triggered that nan rooftop spot wherever Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate nan erstwhile president should person been occupied by rule enforcement.    

'According to my source, that tile was expected to beryllium a constabulary post... [there] was truthful expected to beryllium personification there,' Bongino said from nan Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee.