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Prosecutors allege Rumiantsev strangled the woman that evening.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on the morning of 18 January 2025 and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
In a transcript of the call he made to the emergency services, 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.”<\/p>\n
Mr Trump replied to investigating police in May in an email which said “what I saw was very brief indeed but indeed prevalent”, the court heard.<\/p>\n
“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,” the email continued.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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Rumiantsev, who is Russian, had been working as a receptionist at the time. He stands accused of one count of rape between 17 and 18 January 2025 and another count between 1 and 30 November 2024.<\/p>\n
He said he has experience in freestyle wrestling and accepted the alleged victim is a lot smaller than him but denied ever strangling, hitting or kicking her.<\/p>\n
He insisted he had only grabbed the woman’s arms on 18 January to prevent her from hitting him.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday, the court heard Rumiantsev became aware of the alleged victim’s friendship with Mr Trump in October 2024.<\/p>\n
The defendant told the jury that on 3 November 2024, he and the alleged victim had a disagreement.<\/p>\n
Rumiantsev said: “I started to explain that I felt upset as well about her talking to Barron Trump.<\/p>\n
“I was in no way controlling but I was trying to make her know that if she feels unwell seeing messages I had with girls 10 years ago, she could maybe understand how I felt when she was sat there this moment texting someone else.”<\/p>\n
Rumiantsev denies assault, actual bodily harm, intentional strangulation, perverting the course of justice and two counts of rape, in charges dating between 1 November 2024 and 23 January 2025.<\/p>\n
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