London – President Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, called the UK police last year after he saw a woman being “beaten up” on a video call, a court heard this week.
“I’m calling from the US, uh I just got a call from a girl, you know, she’s being beaten,” Barron Trump, 19, told British paramedics in a call made on January 18, 2025, according to a transcript sent to CBS News by the UK Crown Prosecution Service.
When a paramedic asked for more information, including the victim’s name and age, Trump said: “I mean, these details don’t matter, he’s getting hit.”
When asked about how he knows the woman, the president’s son said: “I don’t think this information matters if she is beaten, but it’s okay, I met her on social media, I don’t think that’s important.”
Trump told emergency services that the woman was being beaten inside her home in the UK
“You’re getting beat up and the call was 8 minutes ago, I don’t know what happened now … So, I’m sorry for being rude,” Trump said.
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During the trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in north-east London, jurors heard on Thursday that the accused Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, had been drinking with the suspect on the evening of Jan. 17, 2025, according to a British news agency. His name has been withheld.
Rumiantsev told the court that there was an argument when a video call from Barron Trump rang on the woman’s phone, and she answered it.
“At that time I stood up, moved away from him maybe a few meters … I answered the phone and immediately put the camera on him. I don’t know why I did that. Maybe I thought that he would see that his behavior was unreasonable, that he would not behave like this in front of another person,” testified Rumiantsev.
Prosecutors allege that Rumiantsev strangled the woman later that night. He was arrested the next morning and faces two counts of rape, among other charges. He denies all the charges against him.
The court heard that Rumiantsev first became aware of the woman’s friendship with Barron Trump at the end of 2024.
“I started to explain that I was upset about his conversation with Barron Trump,” said Rumiantsev. “I was out of control, but I was trying to let him know that if he felt uncomfortable seeing the messages I had with girls 10 years ago, he might understand how I felt when he was sitting there texting someone else.”
The nature of the relationship between Trump and the victim is not clear, but according to BBC affiliate CBS News, he said in a statement written to the court in May last year that “he was told by the victim that I am very close to him that this person [the suspect] it was giving him trouble for a long time.”
The case continues.
