A former Canadian army sniper has offered his verdict on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump – pointing out one very concerning fact.
Dallas Alexander spent 14 years in a sniper team for the Canadian military and has provided close protection to his country’s prime minister, as well as other world leaders.
The army veteran is puzzled by how the would-be-assassin was able to get within a stone’s throw of the former US President without anyone noticing.
He said the rooftop was the most obvious location from which to try and shoot Trump and should have been one of the first places checked and secured.
“The second I saw that aerial photo of what they said happened – it immediately made no sense to me,” he said in a video posted to his Instagram and X social media accounts.
“You cannot, in broad daylight, get onto a rooftop within, what looked like a couple hundred yards, if that [of the president].
“You can’t get in that position with a gun when there’s a president speaking. It cannot be done.
“Like, you don’t even have to be a sniper – it’s the most f****** obvious thing, most obvious place in the whole world.”
US security authorities have launched an investigation into the shooting, which almost killed Trump.
The Republican candidate dodged a bullet that whizzed past his head, clipping and injuring his ear.
The FBI named the gunman as Thomas Matthew Crooks and said he was acting alone.
Crooks laid down on the roof of a building just 130 yards from where Trump was speaking.
Witnesses have said they warned cops about a man armed with an AR-style rifle climbing on top of a building.
He was also spotted and then watched by law enforcement at the Trump rally site because they sensed something wasn’t right, according to reports.
But then they lost sight of him before chaos ensued. Crooks was subsequently shot dead.