Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, contacted UK police saying he witnessed a friend in London being beat up during a video call, a court has heard.
Barron Trump, 19, told police he had friends call 999 from the US so that he could report the alleged attack in January 2025.
Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, is on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court accused of assault and two counts of rape, among other charges, against the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
He denies assault, actual bodily harm, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice by pressuring the woman to withdraw her complaints.
Trump called the alleged victim on 18 January last year, the court heard.
Shortly after placing the call, the US president's fifth child contacted the police and said she was being assaulted.
I'm calling from the US, uh I just got a call from a girl, you know, she's getting beat up, he said, according to a transcript of the call released by the Crown Prosecution Service.
When asked by the operator how he knows the woman, he said: I don't think these details matter, she's getting beat up but OK fine, also I met her on social media, I don't think that matters.
Trump was later asked by police to provide a witness statement and said in an email on 2 May that what he saw had been very brief indeed but indeed prevalent.
Rumiantsev denies the charges, which date between November 2024 and January 2025. Prosecutors allege he strangled the woman the evening of 17 January last year. The defendant told jurors that the two had been drinking together that night and into the early morning, and had consensual sex during that time.
The trial continues.
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