Trump shooter was in the 'perfect location' to assassinate former president and sloped roof excuse is 'garbage' says Army vet

The man who shot Donald Trump connected Saturday was successful nan 'perfect location' to termination nan erstwhile president, a information master revealed, highlighting really 'massive' nan Secret Service's nonaccomplishment is. 

Twenty-year-old Thomas Crooks fired aggregate rounds aimed astatine Trump's caput from a building astir 165 yards from nan shape nan erstwhile president was speaking astatine during a run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, connected Saturday. 

A slug clipped nan erstwhile president's receptor while 2 others were critically wounded and erstwhile firefighter, Corey Comperatore, tragically mislaid his life while heroically defending his family from nan incoming fire. 

Darin Gaub, a retired Army Lt. Col. and usability of a backstage information company, exclusively told DailyMail.com that he is astonished nan Secret Service did not unafraid nan building from which Crooks was perched. 

He simply called it nan champion imaginable spot to termination nan erstwhile president from - thing Secret Service should person known.

'That different building that this sniper was connected was a cleanable location to person oversight of nan full crowd and beryllium capable to spot what was going connected from that angle,' he said. 

'I would person perfectly selected that tract to put personification connected there,' he added.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has said nan agency's capacity astatine nan rally was 'unacceptable.'

She besides noted successful an question and reply pinch ABC News Tuesday really nan tile from which Crooks changeable was unsafe for stationing agents owed to its flimsy slope. 

'That building successful peculiar has a sloped tile astatine its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a information facet that would beryllium considered location that we wouldn’t want to put personification up connected a sloped roof,' she explained arsenic nan logic for not deploying a Secret Service squad to nan location.

Gaub was incredulous astatine Cheatle's reasoning.

'I deliberation it's garbage. It's conscionable an excuse. It's not a valid reason,' he said. 

The Secret Service 'already had snipers connected a slope tile of nan aforesaid creation 150 yards away, making nan full point a mockery.'

He accused Cheatle of lying - saying her rationale makes truthful sense.  

'Anybody who has immoderate thought what they're doing will look astatine that location and recognize that that's a cleanable location to put somebody.'

Shortly aft nan shooting, Cheatle sought to displacement blasted from nan Secret Service onto others.

She had said section authorities were successful complaint of securing nan building Crooks was on. 

Later, she walked that backmost and said nan Secret Service was 'solely responsible' for not preventing nan attack. 

Gaub noted really during his subject work he was taught astir 'force protection' - nan elaborate measures that work members spell done to protect bases successful Iraq and Afghanistan from dispute forces. 

'Like this sniper utilized successful Pennsylvania, those principles are each nan same, and you tin intelligibly look astatine this rally tract and spot what nan astir captious locations that personification needs to beryllium on.' 

'And that building that that sniper was connected was 1 of nan astir captious locations there.'

A important portion of information activity entails reasoning for illustration your enemies and accounting for what their plans of onslaught whitethorn be. 

In nan lawsuit of nan rally connected Saturday, location were fewer buildings pinch specified a clear line-of-sight to nan president than nan 1 selected by Crooks.

Secret Service's inability to place nan tile from which Crooks changeable arsenic a awesome threat shows a strategical nonaccomplishment connected nan portion of nan agency, nan seasoned told DailyMail.com. 

'This is 1 of nan astir unforgiving jobs successful nan world, and erstwhile you make a mistake, a life is lost,' he said. 

'And a correction was made.'