Judge Warns Jurors to Treat Barron Trump’s Story with Caution After He Called U.K. Police to Report Assault: ‘It Could Be Biased’

A British judge has instructed jurors to approach Barron Trump’s account in an ongoing assault case with “caution,” warning it could be “biased.”

Barron, President Donald Trump’s 19-year-old son, is linked to the case after prosecutors alleged he was on a FaceTime call with a woman at the moment she was attacked by her ex-boyfriend, Russian citizen Matvei Rumiantsev. Multiple U.K. outlets — including The Times, The Guardian and The Independent — have reported that Barron contacted police shortly after the alleged assault.

In court, prosecutors said Barron had met the woman on social media and phoned the City of London Police on Jan. 18, 2025 — just days before his father’s second inauguration — to report that a woman was allegedly “getting beat up.” He reportedly called authorities about eight minutes after the incident.

“It’s really an emergency, please,” Barron said during the call, according to a court transcript.

During Rumiantsev’s cross-examination on Jan. 23, he was asked whether he felt jealous about men his ex-girlfriend spoke to.

“What I was really unhappy about was that she was frankly leading [Barron] on,” he said, according to Metro. “I am being portrayed as a jealous person who can lose his temper due to jealousy. I want to just make clear that her actions towards [Barron] were wrong, and it was not fair. I was jealous to some extent.”

When High Court Justice Joel Bennathan addressed the jury on Monday, Jan. 26, he emphasized that Barron’s account is considered hearsay evidence because Barron was not under oath and had not been questioned in cross-examination.

“If he had done so, no doubt he could have been asked about things such as whether he ever got a good view of what happened, whether he actually saw [the woman] being assaulted, or jumped to this conclusion on the basis of her screams,” Bennathan said.

“He might also have been asked whether his perception was biased because he was a close friend with [the woman],” Bennathan added.

The judge noted that “the law allows you to receive and accept hearsay evidence,” but told jurors to be careful when weighing it while deciding a verdict.

“Therefore, you can rely on it, but you should be cautious in doing so, consider if it could be mistaken or biased by his friendship with [the woman], and not convict the defendant mainly in reliance on it,” he concluded.

Rumiantsev denies multiple allegations, including two charges of rape, assault and actual bodily harm, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice, stemming from separate encounters between November 2024 and January 2025.