Asked by the operator how he knew the woman, Trump 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.”
The operator responded: “Can you stop being rude and actually answer my questions?”
A few months later, in May 2025, Trump told police in an email that what he saw had been “very brief indeed but indeed prevalent”.
The 19-year-old said his video call to the woman had been picked up by “a shirtless man with darkish hair”.
This view lasted “maybe one second” before the camera flipped to “the victim getting hit while crying”, he told police, adding: “This whole interaction had lasted five to seven seconds.”
Jurors heard that Rumiantsev and the woman had been drinking together on the evening of 17 January and into the next morning.
The prosecution said he assaulted the woman on 18 January 2025, including hitting her in the face.
