Trump says 5 jets were shot down in India-Pak conflict, claims truce credit again

India Today

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that approximately four to five jets were shot down during the recent hostilities between India and Pakistan in May. The President did not specify whether these jets belonged to the Indian or Pakistani forces.    Trump stated, "In fact, planes were being shot out of the air. Five, five, four or five, but I think five jets were shot down actually". This claim comes amidst his repeated assertions of mediating a ceasefire between the two nuclear-armed countries, citing trade as a point of leverage in the discussions. However, further details regarding the mediation or the specific engagement of jets remain undisclosed.

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00:00Something I'm very proud of, we stopped a lot of wars, a lot of wars, and these were serious.

00:09You had India, Pakistan, that was going, and in fact, planes were being shot out of the air.

00:15Five, five, four or five, but I think five jets were shot down, actually, and Lindsay, that was getting worse and worse, wasn't it?

00:22It was looking like it was going to go, these are two serious nuclear countries, and they were hitting each other.

00:31You know, it seems like a new form of warfare.

00:32You saw it recently when you looked at what we did in Iran, where we knocked out the nuclear capability, totally knocked out that.

00:40It's going to be gone for a long time.

00:44But there seems to be a hit and then another hit, a hit and another hit, it's a different thing.

00:50But India and Pakistan were going at it, and they were back and forth, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and we got it solved through trade.

00:59We said, you guys want to make a trade deal.

01:01We're not making a trade deal if you're going to be throwing around weapons and maybe nuclear weapons, both very powerful nuclear states.

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