Trump is portrayed as having been manipulated into a war with Iran through fear for his own life — bad for his standing and for anyone hoping the Iran conflict was his own decision.

• Warnings of an Iranian plot to kill Trump allegedly led to him being hustled off Air Force One and onto a decoy flight.
• That fear is said to have been fed to him deliberately, pushing him toward striking Iran.
• Netanyahu publicly tied the earlier attempts on Trump's life to Iran "through proxies," a link the evidence does not support.
• Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Butler gunman, did have online contacts abroad, but nothing pointing to Iran.
• Trump then moved against Iran's leader Khamenei, framing it as getting him first.

Outlook: Expect more pressure on the official story behind the assassination attempts, and more questions about who really drove the decision to hit Iran.