The court had heard Matvei Rumiantsev answered her phone to a FaceTime call from Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, and turned the screen to the woman, who was crying and screaming on the floor.
In a transcript of the call he made to the City of London Police, 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.”
He later told investigators in an email sent in May last year: “What I saw was very brief indeed but indeed prevalent.”
He said:
“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 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.
“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.”
The court heard Rumiantsev became aware of the woman’s friendship with Trump in October 2024.
He told the jury he was “jealous to some extent”.
“I am being portrayed as a jealous person who can lose his temper due to jealousy,” he said.
“I want to just make clear that her actions towards him was wrong and it was not fair.”
