A woman told a London court that Barron Trump saved her life by contacting police in the United Kingdom when he allegedly witnessed her being attacked by her ex-boyfriend on a FaceTime call, multiple outlets report.
According to Metro UK, Barron Trump picked up a FaceTime call from the woman and allegedly saw Matvei Rumianstev hitting her.
“It is claimed that Rumianstev, 22, was jealous of her friendship with Donald Trump’s youngest son,” the outlet stated.
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Metro UK shared further:
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard a dramatic call in which Barron told 999 operators: ‘I just got a call from a girl I know. She’s getting beaten up’.
The call to UK police was made at 2.23am on January 18 last year.
After giving the woman’s address, he repeats: ‘It’s really an emergency, please. I got a call from her with a guy beating her up.’
Bodyworn footage from when police arrived was played in court, showing officers asking the woman if Rumianstev had been streaming during the alleged assault.
They told her that someone in the US had been in touch, but he did not give his name.
Eventually, she told them: ‘I am friends with Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son.’
After she explains the Facetime call earlier that evening, one of the officers can then be heard telling a colleague: ‘So apparently this informant from America is likely to be Donald Trump’s son.’
He adds: ‘This female is friends with Donald Trump’s son. She was on a Facetime with him when this assault happened and he’s called us.’
The unidentified woman told the courtroom that Barron Trump “saved my life” during Rumianstev’s trial.
Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron saved the life of a woman by calling the police when he witnessed her being beaten up over a videocall, a court heard.
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The woman is then asked to call Barron back, and the American explains to officers that he could see her crying and being struck during the FaceTime call.
‘I called you guys – that was the best thing I could do. I wasn’t going to call back and threaten things to him because that would just make the situation worse,’ he told the officers.
Giving evidence, the woman said: ‘He [Barron Trump] helped save my life. That call was like a sign from God at that moment.’
Rumiantsev has been charged with raping the woman on two occasions, assault, actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.
Police attended his home in Poplar, east London, in the early hours of January 18, 2025, following two 999 calls from the alleged victim and one from Barron.
The woman told officers she had been slapped, punched, kicked and strangled during the assault.
While in custody, Rumiantsev tricked officers into allowing him to phone the woman, and was overheard saying words to the effect of ‘while you are sleeping in your warm bed, I’m in jail,’ Serena Gates, prosecuting, said.
Eight days later, the Russian made a call from prison to a friend named Arsen, saying he had already posted him a letter that he should give to the woman, in which he pleads with her to withdraw her statement.
The alleged victim withdrew her statement but later retracted this, telling police the original account was true and that Rumiantsev, a former MMA fighter, had also sexually assaulted her on two occasions.
She explained that the Russian would deliberately get her so drunk that he could have sex with her without her being able to consent.
She said she had asked him why he did this to her and he responded ‘you never want to do this with me so I make you drink and do this to you.’
Sasha Wass KC, defending, has suggested that her accounts of the alleged attacks were ‘untrue and fabricated’.
Rumiantsev denies assault, ABH, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.