Barron Trump called UK police after seeing woman ‘beat up’, court hears

Donald Trump’s youngest son contacted UK police saying he witnessed a friend in London being “beaten” during a video call, a court heard.

Barron Trump, 19, told police his friends called 999 from the US to report the alleged attack in January 2025.

Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, is on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on charges of assault and two counts of rape, among other charges, against the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

He denies assault, causing actual bodily harm, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice by pressuring the woman to withdraw her complaints.

The court heard Trump called the alleged victim on January 18 last year.

The US president’s fifth child contacted police shortly after making the call and said she had been attacked.

“I’m calling from the USA, I just got a call from a girl, you know she’s getting beaten,” he said, according to the transcript of the call published by the Crown Prosecution Service.

“This happened about eight minutes ago. I just learned how to call someone. Uh, uh, this is a real emergency.”

When the operator asked how he knew the woman, he said: “I don’t think these details are important, she is being beaten but that’s okay, plus I met her on social media, I don’t think it’s important.”

The operator replied: “Can you stop being rude and actually answer my questions?”

Police later asked Trump to provide a witness statement, and he said in a May 2 email that what he saw was “really brief but really widespread.”

He said he did not expect his call to the woman to be answered due to the time difference, but was greeted by a “shirtless, dark-haired man.”

“This image lasted maybe a second,” he said, and then added that the image changed to the victim being hit while crying.

“This entire interaction lasted five to seven seconds.”

He continued: “I got two friends to call the Met Police in the UK even though they were in the US.

“Since I have no evidence, the victim, with whom I am very close, told me that this person has been causing difficulties for him for a long time.”

Rumiantsev denies the accusations dated between November 2024 and January 2025.

Prosecutors allege that Rumiantsev strangled the woman on the evening of January 17 last year.

He then called the police and the Russian citizen was arrested and detained on the morning of January 18.

The defendant told jurors that the two drank together that night and into the early hours of the morning and had consensual sex during that time.

Rumiantsev, who testified on Thursday, said an argument broke out and the woman “was completely hysterical, crying, screaming, yelling at me.”

She said she held his arms in self-defense to prevent him from hitting her.

“I noticed his phone next to me on the couch was ringing with a Barron Trump face call,” the defendant told the court.

He said he wasn’t sure why he answered the call, but perhaps he hoped “he wouldn’t act like that in front of anyone else.”

Previously, the Russian national told the court that he learned about the woman’s friendship with Trump in October 2024; The woman asked him to take a photo of their phone conversation.

The court also heard that he and the alleged victim had a dispute in November 2024.

Rumiantsev said he was “saddened” by his conversation with Trump.

But she said: “I wasn’t checking in any way but if he wasn’t feeling well when he saw the messages I had with girls 10 years ago, maybe he could understand how I was feeling right now sitting there texting someone else.”

The trial continues.