 He says cops did nothing about it and the gunman opened fire, only 500 feet away from Donald Trump, one of the bullets nicking Trump's ear. A former Secret Service deputy director, A.T. Smith, also wonders why a sharpshooter who was stationed on another building didn't see the guy. Their responsibility is to be padding the area. They have long-range binoculars. Maybe the individual was just camouflaged in such a way that he wasn't able to be seen until he started firing.