Barron Trump encounters NYU professors who signed letter calling Donald Trump 'threat to our republic'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Speculations surrounding Barron Trump's choice of college ended last week when he was spotted at the New York University's Stern School of Business. However, on his first day at NYU, he allegedly began meeting with professors who explicitly opposed his father, former president Donald Trump, as per The Daily Beast.

The teenager's first meeting as a student at the prestigious university was with Stern School of Business interim dean JP Eggers, who, in October 2020, joined 14 educators at the institution to sign an open letter to business leaders warning the 45th president was a "threat" to "our republic."

Eggers assumed Stern's interim dean position on July 1, 2024.

Barron Trump meets with anti-Trump dean 

More than 1000 signatories from business schools, including Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, and Yale, were part of the letter, which was primarily authored by Professor Deepak Malhotra of Harvard University.

"It is time for business leaders to follow suit and speak out against the threat Trump poses to our country," the letter called on, referring to scientists, veterans, and other professionals who disagreed with the former president.

"It is time for business leaders to declare publicly what so many have been saying privately: that president Trump is unfit to lead and is a threat to the Republic," the warning continued.

"And it is time for journalists to start asking America's CEOs whether they believe four more years of Trump would be good for the country," it read.

As Barron kicked off his college education on September 4, wearing a casual white polo shirt tucked into black pants, he was surrounded by bodyguards before he hurried to meet the dean.

The online records showed that over half of the 14 NYU Stern administrators who were signatories of the 2020 letter are still employed at the institution in some role.

Donald Trump's past encounters with Stern School of Business

Responding to his younger son's college choice, the former president said last week, "It's a very high-quality place. He liked it. He liked the school," as per the Daily Mail.

Nevertheless, Donald has had some past encounters with NYU's Stern School of Business.

About the $250 million New York civil fraud case filed by state Attorney General Letitia James, the MAGA leader called on Stern for a certification to prove his business empire's accounting was accurate.

According to a report by  NYU’s student newspaper, Washington Square News, the business school's accounting professor, Eli Bartov, received a $900,000 payment from Donald Trump's Save America PAC for his testimony.

Bartov testified in court that the real estate mogul's accounting had "no evidence of concealment," claiming his "analysis shows the statements of financial conditions for all the years were not materially misstated."

Justice Arthur Engoron admonished the testimony of the professor, who is still part of Stern's faculty while rejecting the defense's request to rule in his favor. The judge asserted that the testimony proved that "for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say."