The court docket had heard Matvei Rumiantsev answered her cellphone to a FaceTime name from Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, and turned the display screen to the woman, who was crying and screaming on the ground.
In a transcript of the decision he made to the City of London Police, Trump stated: “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 instructed investigators in an e mail despatched in May final 12 months: “What I saw was very brief indeed but indeed prevalent.”
He stated:
“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 particular person who picked up the cellphone was a shirtless man with darkish hair, though I did not get look, this view lasted possibly one second and I used to be 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 docket heard Rumiantsev grew to become conscious of the woman’s friendship with Trump in October 2024.
He instructed 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 stated.
“I want to just make clear that her actions towards him was wrong and it was not fair.”
