Trump changes claim on India-Pakan conflict again; now, says ‘8 planes shot down’ | World News

President Donald Trump on stage after speaking at the America Business Forum in Miami. (AP Photo)

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday reiterated his claim of ending the India-Pakan conflict in May and credited his trade deals and tariff threats as tools to end wars and conflicts across the world. However, his data to back his claims have been consently changing. Now, he has said that “eight planes” were “shot down” during India’s Operation Sindoor.

Delivering his remarks at the America Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday, Trump said that the US is making peace all around the world through strength, as no one is “going to mess around with us”. Mentioning the trade deals signed the United States last week, Trump said his adminration signed deals with China, Japan and Malaysia and went on to repeat his claim that he ended “eight wars in eight months” of his second tenure.
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Detailing the “ending of the conflict between India and Pakan”, the US president claimed that he was in the middle of signing a trade deal with New Delhi and Islamabad when he heard that both the neighbouring countries “were going to war” and it was then that he decided his adminration would not make any deal with either country “if they are at war”.

“I was in the midst of a trade deal with both of them. Then I read on the front page of a certain newspaper… they are going to war. Seven or eight planes were shot down. Eight planes were shot down essentially,” Trump said during the business forum. This figure is different from what he claimed earlier. He had first claimed that three jets had been shot down. Then in July he increased the number to 5 jets. In August this year, he further increased the number to seven. And now, the “number of jets shot down during the India-Pakan war” stands at 8 for Trump.

The US president claimed that after he threatened to decline trade deals with India and Pakan, “I got a call, they need peace. They stopped. I said thank you, let’s trade. Isn’t that great?” Trump has repeatedly claimed in the past that his adminration was responsible for securing a “full and immediate” ceasefire between India and Pakan.

However, India has rejected US President Trump’s claims of ending its conflict with Pakan, stating that the decision to de-escalate tensions with Islamabad was taken through a direct diplomatic effort between the two countries, and that there was no third-party involvement for any kind of mediation.