Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Donald Trump may be fumbling for a consistent line on why he struck Iran, but his biographer says the president’s underlying motive was never about policy clarity in the first place. Since launching his war against Iran over the weekend, Trump has failed to keep the story straight about what his goals are in the military campaign, which has already claimed the lives of six U.S. troops and hundreds of civilians. The war is all the more politically confounding because Trump, 79, has long railed against the very kind of regime-changing foreign interventions he is now waging. Read more at The Daily Beast.