At the end of the day, that was a terrible location for a rally. It's most likely that the Secret Service, who scoped these places out ahead of time, briefed the Trump team on the facts, and it was rejected. There were not enough officers to cover the entire area, and here we are.
If you watch the video of the apparent officer who took the fatal shot, it is a pretty impressive setup for monitoring just a few hundred feet. When he does fire, he needs to bring down the angle of his weapon quite a bit, which suggests he was covering a perimeter beyond a few hundred feet.
Something caught his attention and he acted pretty quick.
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