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

Donald Trump might not be preparing to accept the Republican nomination this week in Milwaukee had he not turned his head to look at an immigration statistics chart during his now infamous rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, this past Saturday.

Seconds after the ex-president turned from the podium, crazed gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, opened fire, wounding Trump in the ear and killing retired fire chief Corey Comperatore, 50. 

Crooks was swiftly gunned down by Secret Service counter snipers but questions linger about the agency's security protocols in the wake of the shooting. 

Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was formerly Trump's physician, was quoted by The New York Times as saying that Trump believes it was the fact that he was talking about the southern border crisis that saved his life. 

'He goes, "The border patrol saved my life." He said, "If I hadn't pointed at that chart and turned my head to look at it that bullet would have hit me right in the head.' 

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

'I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be dead. By luck or by God, many people 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 the Secret Service with how they handled the evacuation when speaking to the Post saying they did a 'fantastic job.'

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

A veteran of Israel's Special Operations Aaron Cohen reiterated this view in an interview with Fox News. 

'Snipers are typically trained to shoot into the cerebral cortex of the cerebellum at the top of the brain stem,' he said. 

'It incapacitates you, it keeps your hands from moving. … It’s about the distance of the shot. One hundred thirty yards. That’s a putt. Anyone can put a two, two, three, optic on a target from that distance and hit it. It’s not a difficult shot to make.'

'The fact that he just happened to be turned this way with that shot coming in is what saved his life,' Cohen added.  

Meanwhile, Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle has been slammed for her 'stupidity' and 'BS excuse' that snipers were not present on the roof used by would-be assassin Thomas Crooks because it was 'too sloped'.

Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday, Cheatle claimed that agents were not positioned on top of the sloped building, deeming it too dangerous - despite images from the scene showing Secret Service snipers set up on a sloped roof behind where Trump was delivering his speech. 

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

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

'Our snipers used to set in on mountain tops in Afghanistan. On the down slopes if need be. The stupidity of this statement explains so much of why s*** hit the fan that day. Absolute incompetence,' he added. 

Following Cheatle's bizarre comments, a former US senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint also weighed in saying: 'This sad excuse about defies believability.' 

While former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino claimed Thomas Crooks' vantage point was due to be covered but no one showed up while the agency's director Kimberly Cheatle received backlash for her 'BS excuse' that the roof was 'too sloped' for snipers.

The political TV and radio commentator, who worked as an agent for over a decade, on Tuesday told Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast Triggered that the rooftop spot where Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate the former president should have been occupied by law enforcement.    

'According to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post... [there] was so supposed to be someone there,' Bongino said from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.