Washington DC, July 19 -- US President Donald Trump on Saturday again falsely claimed to stop the India-Pakistan conflict.

Trump stated that he halted the escalation with the assistance of a trade deal.

"We stopped a lot of wars. And these were serious, India and Pakistan, that was going on. Planes were being shot out of there. I think five jets were shot down, actually. These are two serious nuclear countries, and they were hitting each other. You know, it seems like a new form of warfare. You saw it recently when you looked at what we did in Iran, where we knocked out their nuclear capability, totally knocked out that," he said.

"But India and Pakistan were going at it, and they were back and forth, and it was getting bigger and bigg...