President Trump’s youngest son saved the life of a woman in London when he witnessed an alleged attack on her by a former boyfriend, a court was told.
Barron Trump was on a video call with a woman in London when he saw her ex-boyfriend allegedly grab her hair and push her to the floor while shouting “you are not worth anything”, Snaresbrook crown court was told.
Trump phoned the police immediately after he believed he had seen Matvei Rumiantsev, a Russian citizen, repeatedly punch the woman.
In court, a dramatic call was played in which Trump’s son can be heard calling 999 operators and telling them: “I just got a call from a girl I know. She’s getting beaten up.” The call to the police was made on January 18, 2025, at 2.23am.
Rumiantsev denies assault and actual bodily harm, as well as two charges of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice.
Rumiantsev, 22, of east London, was allegedly jealous of Trump’s relationship with the woman and became angry when the American attempted to phone her earlier in the evening, prosecutors said.
Trump, 19, was heard pleading with the emergency services to help after he gave the address for the woman. He said: “It’s really an emergency, please. I got a call from her with a guy beating her up.”
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The 999 operator then told off Trump for refusing to answer questions, saying: “Can you stop being rude and actually answer my questions. If you want to help the person, you’ll answer my questions clearly and precisely, thank you. So how do you know her?”
Trump replied: “I met her on social media. She’s getting really badly beat up and the call was about eight minutes ago, I don’t know what could have happened by now.” He added: “So sorry for being rude.”
Bodycam video from police at the scene showed the woman telling officers: “I am friends with Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son.” One of the officers is then heard telling a colleague: “So apparently this informant from America is likely to be Donald Trump’s son.”
After the woman then called Trump back, the president’s son explained to officers that he could see her crying and being struck during the video call.
During a cross-examination of the woman’s account of the evening, Sasha Wass KC, for the defence, challenged her on the assertion that Trump’s call saved her life. She told the court: “He helped save my life. That call was like a sign from God at that moment.”
The jury was told that the woman had been in a relationship with Rumiantsev for about six months at the time of the attack. The woman has claimed that Rumiantsev assaulted her and attempted to strangle her after an argument broke out. Months after this incident, the woman made a complaint to the police that she had allegedly been sexually abused by Rumiantsev.
Police were told by the woman that she had allegedly been raped twice by the man, once in November 2024. The second incident is alleged to have taken place hours before the police went to the woman’s apartment on January 18. Wass suggested to the court that Rumiantsev had restrained the woman after she behaved “in an angry and violent way” towards him that evening.
Questioning the woman’s claims, Wass said: “You invented this wholly untrue and fabricated account that he raped you on those two occasions — you were never raped.”
The woman replied: “I didn’t invent that. That would be completely evil and disgraceful toward people who have been in that situation.”
The trial continues.