So, who called Donwald at the last minute and said,

[MineralMan]

"Oh, no you don't!" Putin? McConnell? Or someone else with control over Trump's urges?

We'll probably never know, but the story we're hearing from the White House isn't the real story, I guarantee. It has nothing to do with how many Iranians would have died. Nope. Trump doesn't care about all that.

Someone Trumped Donald at the last minute. Someone with more power than Donald J. Trump.

Will we ever find out who made the call? I doubt it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Gotta be Putin.

[MineralMan]

3. That's the most obvious possibility, for sure.

However, it might have been someone else, too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. He doesn't listen to anyone else.

[RKP5637]

6. I think Putin too! Putin seems to be his idol! n/t

[ooky]

2. The only thing we do know for sure is that he's lying.

[MineralMan]

4. If he says anything, he's lying.

[OKNancy]

5. Jared

He listens to Jared and he probably told him... "You are going to fuck up my Mid-East peace plans and Ivanka won't like that"

[mr_lebowski]

8. I'm going with 'Kabuki Theater' from the outset ... he thought he could bully Iran & when they

said 'Um, could you hold on, we have to talk to our Supreme Leader, this could take awhile' ...

Trump went 'uh ... okay, I'll wait'.

He was never going to up and attack Iran, IOW, he already knew Pootie said NO.

So this was a half-assed attempt to front and look 'tough' ... to get Iran to the table.

He may've also wanted Bolton off his back, who'd been bugging him to at LEAST wag his friggin' dick around a LITTLE bit re: Iran since they shot down our toy.

With a pair of tweezers, I mean

[Turin_C3PO]

9. Tucker Carlson or Vladimir Putin would be my guess.

[machoneman]

10. Iran has the latest Soviet military hardware and it's not bad stuff. Still, Putin may not....

..want Iran to 'test' it all even in a limited strike in retaliation to our attack. If the goods don't work well, Iran will look elsewhere and deny Russia some serious moola.

[Demovictory9]

11. I heard at least 2 news shows openly questioning Trump's truthfulness regarding his statement

that he called off the strike at the last minute to avoid deaths. THey said the risk of death would have been known and discussed prior.

It's no longer a big dealt to ask "is the president telling the truth?" Doubt is baked into covering Trump

[customerserviceguy]

12. I don't believe a word of it

There was another thread that said that the surface-to-air missile that knocked out the drone indicated that Iran had military technology that we might not have expected. Trump will not do any military activity that is not 99% guaranteed to involve minimum or non-existent US casualties. He knows how damaging it was to Jimmy Carter to try the hostage rescue mission in 1980, and have it fail miserably.

[tblue37]

13. Putin, I bet. nt