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<\/p>\nBarron Trump (19) saw his friend being attacked by Matvei Rumiantsev in London on January 18 last year, a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in England was told.<\/p>\n
The US president\u2019s son told a City of London Police operator: \u201cI just got a call from a girl\u2026 she\u2019s getting beat up,\u201d the court heard.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said that Rumiantsev was jealous of her friendship with Mr Trump.<\/p>\n
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US President Donald Trump with his son Barron in 2019 (Chris Kleponis\/Pool via CNP \/MediaPunch\/Alamy)<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old, who lived in Canary Wharf, east London, was convicted on Wednesday of assault occasioning actual bodily harm between January 17 and 18 and perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n
He was found not guilty of one count 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.<\/p>\n
In a transcript of the call he made to the emergency services, Mr Trump said: \u201cOh I\u2019m calling from the US, uh I just got a call from a girl, you know, she\u2019s getting beat up\u201d, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump replied to investigating police in May in an email which said \u201cwhat I saw was very brief indeed but indeed prevalent\u201d, jurors were told.<\/p>\n
It continued: \u201cI didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe individual who picked up the phone was a shirtless man with darkish hair, although I didn\u2019t get a good look, this view lasted maybe one second and I was racing with adrenaline.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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 5 to 7 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Trump grew up in the public eye as the only child of Donald and Melania Trump and was rumoured to be helping his father with his election strategy in 2024.<\/p>\n
His older brother Eric Trump told the Press Association in November 2024 that Barron persuaded his father to go on a podcast tour as part of efforts to court Gen Z and millennial voters.<\/p>\n
The US president appeared on several podcasts popular among young people, including The Joe Rogan Experience \u2013 the biggest podcast in the world \u2013 as well as podcasts with internet personalities Theo Von, Logan Paul and Adin Ross.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Serena Gates said that Rumiantsev was jealous of the woman\u2019s friendship with Mr Trump, perhaps because of his \u201cpublic profile\u201d.<\/p>\n
She told jurors to note Mr Trump\u2019s \u201curgent\u201d and \u201cworried\u201d tone in the call to police.<\/p>\n
The court had heard that Rumiantsev and the woman had been drinking together on the evening of January 17 2025 and into the early hours of the next day.<\/p>\n
The prosecution said that Rumiantsev assaulted the woman that day, including hitting her in the face as he later beat her.<\/p>\n
Rumiantsev, who the court heard has experience in martial arts, had denied this.<\/p>\n
The defendant answered her phone during the beating to a FaceTime call from Mr Trump and turned the screen to the woman who was crying and screaming on the floor, the court heard.<\/p>\n
He became aware of the woman\u2019s friendship with Mr Trump in October 2024, jurors were told.<\/p>\n
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The trial was heard at Snaresbrook Crown Court (PA)<\/p>\n
On Friday, under cross-examination, Rumiantsev was asked if he was jealous of males that the woman might speak to.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhat I was really unhappy about was that she was frankly leading him (Barron Trump) on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Justice Bennathan KC told Rumiantsev the trial is about whether \u201cyou attacked her or not\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rumiantsev responded, telling the court: \u201cI am being portrayed as a jealous person who can lose his temper due to jealousy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to just make clear that her actions towards him was wrong and it was not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI was jealous to some extent.\u201d<\/p>\n
The perverting the course of justice charged relates to a letter written to the woman by Rumiantsev from prison after the January 18 attack, asking her to withdraw her allegations.<\/p>\n
Rumiantsev will be sentenced at the same court on March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barron Trump (19) saw his friend being attacked by Matvei Rumiantsev in London on January 18 last year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-309418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115977274240495463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}