UK judge praises Trump’s son after friend assaulted

US President Donald Trump’s son Barron has been praised by a UK judge for his “life-saving” actions after he witnessed a friend being attacked and managed to raise the alarm.

While witnessing Matvei Rumiantsev’s sustained attack on a woman during a FaceTime call, Trump saw the attacker’s face before the camera panned to the weeping victim in an act of humiliation.

As Rumiantsev was sentenced to four years in prison at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, Judge Joel Bennathan praised Trump for calling 999, the UK emergency number, to ask the woman for urgent help.

Fearing she would be killed, the attack victim said she managed to call 999 but Rumiantsev snatched the phone and dragged her by her hair when she briefly managed to get out to ask her neighbor for help.

“At some stage during the violence, his friend Barron Trump received a phone call,” the judge said.

“You saw him beating her and you held the phone and filmed him, it was an angry move to humiliate him.

“Although Mr. Trump was in the United States, he correctly and responsibly arranged for emergency services here to be called and told them what he saw.”

The victim told the court he believed he “couldn’t run away and… could die” during the violence, which lasted about an hour.

The transcript of Trump’s 999 call to the City of London Police shows him pleading for urgent action and being accused of being “rude” for not wanting to go into detail about how he knew the woman.

“I’m calling from the USA, I just got a call from a girl, you know she’s getting beaten,” Trump said.

When asked how he knew the woman, Trump replied: “I don’t think those details matter, she gets beaten up but that’s okay, plus I met her on social media, I don’t think that matters.”

When he interrupted the operator and said “He is being beaten”, the operator said to him: “Can you stop being rude and actually answer my questions? If you want to help the person, you will answer my questions clearly and clearly, thank you. So how do you know him?”

Trump later said: “I met him on social media.”

Later, on the 999 call, he said: “He’s been beaten really badly and the call was about eight minutes ago, I don’t know what might have happened so far… So I’m sorry for being rude.”

The court heard Trump responded to investigating police in May with an email saying: “What I saw was really brief but really widespread.”

The email continued: “I wasn’t expecting her to pick up the phone due to the time zone difference being in the US, the phone was not answered by her, much to my dismay.”

“The person who answered the phone was a shirtless, dark-haired man, and although I couldn’t see it clearly, this image lasted maybe a second and I was racing with adrenaline.

“The camera then panned to footage of the victim being shot while crying and saying something in Russian. The man had hung up the phone. This entire interaction lasted five to seven seconds.”

Rumiantsev, who comes from a wealthy Russian family and lives in Canary Wharf, admitted in his testimony at the hearing that he was jealous of the woman’s contact with Trump.

He denied the charges against him but was convicted by a jury of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.

The judge sentenced him to four years in prison on Friday.

The judge said Rumiantsev could face deportation when he is released from prison, that he would be banned from contacting the woman for the next seven years, and that if the deportation process was successful, he could be drafted into the Russian army and sent to Ukraine.