From what I can gather, the roof the shooter was on has a slight incline up towards the shooter’s head. It is possible that the counter-snipers couldn’t see him because he was below their line of vision until he raised his head to take the shot.
They still knew he was there. They should have been pinging the edge of the roof with suppressive fire while the agents on the ground hustled Trump off stage. Its a no brainner. People on the ground 50 ft from the building were pointing right at the guy.
I’m so not a trained shooter but me with my AK 74 at 150 yards with my holographic sight Which is pretty crappy I’m cookie cutting the edge of that roof. I wouldn’t care what was being said in my ear bud I would have shot at that guy and worried about getting sacked later.
This whole thing is just despicable and disgusting. I don’t even want to hear the lying excuses that are going to start up. This was a hit job.