A man has been found guilty of assaulting a woman after Donald Trump’s youngest son told UK police that he saw her being attacked on a video call.
Barron Trump, 19, was in the US when he told a 999 call handler that a woman was “getting beat up” in London, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
Prosecutors said 22-year-old Russian national Matvei Rumiantsev was jealous of her friendship with the US president‘s son, possibly because of his “public profile”.
He was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm between 17 and 18 January last year, and perverting the course of justice, after he wrote to the victim from prison asking her to withdraw her allegations.
But Rumiantsev was cleared by the jury of rape and intentional strangulation relating to the same date when Mr Trump made his report to police, and another count of rape and assault alleged to have occurred in November 2024.
The court had heard Rumiantsev answered her phone to a FaceTime call from Mr Trump and turned the screen to the woman, who was crying and screaming on the floor.
In a transcript of the call he made to the City of London Police, Mr Trump said: “Oh I’m calling from the US, uh I just got a call from a girl, you know, she’s getting beat up.”
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He later told investigators in an email sent in May last year: “What I saw was very brief indeed but indeed prevalent.”
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“I didn’t expect her to pick up due to the difference in the time zone to the fact I am in the USA, the phone was answered but not by her, to my dismay,” he said.
“The individual who picked up the phone was a shirtless man with darkish hair, although I didn’t get a good look, this view lasted maybe one second and I was racing with adrenaline.
“The camera was then flipped to the victim getting hit while crying, stating something in Russian. The guy had hung up. This whole interaction had lasted five to seven seconds.”
The court heard Rumiantsev became aware of the woman’s friendship with Mr Trump in October 2024.
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He told the jury he was “jealous to some extent”.
“I am being portrayed as a jealous person who can lose his temper due to jealousy,” he said.
“I want to just make clear that her actions towards him was wrong and it was not fair.”
