Our schools are a breeding ground for domestic terrorists — I’ve witnessed it firsthand.
A business professor in the University of North Carolina system called for the assassination of President Donald Trump before being arrested for assaulting a woman and resisting a police officer. Despite the arrests occurring weeks ago, the university has not addressed the story.
Susan Clark Muntean, 54, is an associate professor of business at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNC Asheville). There are two active criminal cases against her, one for trespassing on UNC Asheville’s campus and resisting an officer, and another for assaulting a government official or employee and simple assault.
Court documents reveal that on April 8, Muntean went to the UNC Asheville campus and refused to leave “after having been notified not to enter and remain there” by university officials. When a campus police officer tried to escort her off the property, she “did resist, delay, and obstruct” by lying on the ground and “refusing to cooperate in any manner.” It is unclear why the university originally asked Muntean to stay off UNC Asheville property.
Muntean was released on a $2,000 unsecured bond only to be arrested days later for kneeing a member of the Asheville Police Department. The incident occurred after she assaulted a woman by “grabbing her wrist in an aggressive twisting motion” at Asheville Yoga Center. She was released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.
These events come after a series of troubling social media posts by the professor. On her LinkedIn profile, Muntean released a rambling video of nonsensical statements, including that President Trump “must be taken down now.”
The call to violence against the president was followed by her saying she would not “kill” members of the Trump administration before taking them to The Hague, a site in the Netherlands that hosts the United Nations’ International Court of Justice. She also stated she wants to wrestle Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on her trampoline.
Other LinkedIn posts from Muntean include her claim that the current chancellor of UNC Asheville, Kimberly van Noort, along with several of the college’s professors, “will be brought before trial at The Hague and are preparing their defenses.”
“I will serve as the new acting emergency Chancellor until the State of North Carolina is purged of corruption,” wrote Muntean in the post.
She also used the hashtag “#Muntean4President” while asking her LinkedIn followers for “consent to remove Donald Trump from the Office” of the presidency.
On her LinkedIn, she boasts about her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America in Asheville before saying that UNC Asheville’s “campus is being evacuated and the fascist in North Carolina are being prosecuted in the Hague.”
Clark Muntean has worked as an associate professor at UNC Asheville since August 2014. She previously taught at Ball State University, the London School of Economics, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), according to her website. She received her PhD from UCSD and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
Despite the obvious danger this professor poses to students, current students told me they never knew or were notified of the events she was involved in.
This isn’t shocking. UNC Asheville is known for its violent far-left ideology — and I was victimized by it when I was a student there.
Just last year, a student destroyed the pro-life table hosted by the chapter of Turning Point USA I founded and led in partnership with Students for Life of America. I was behind the table. The student who attacked me was voted into the student government days later, only for the university to force him to resign. But do not mistake this for appropriate action: This year, he was allowed to be voted back in as a senator.
Not long after my tabling, the university’s now former Dean of Students, Megan Pugh, was caught admitting to violating North Carolina’s ban on DEI offices and programs on camera. Pugh was ousted shortly after public outrage, but the ideology that infects this school remains unaddressed.
My experience is not unique. The trend of enabling unstable teachers, which has gone unaddressed, doesn’t end with Asheville. The nation just witnessed yet another assassination attempt on President Trump, this time executed by a California tutor recognized as “Teacher of the Month” in 2024.
Since then, the internet has been filled with educational leaders wishing that the would-be assassin had been successful. Educators, from a Wisconsin high school social studies teacher to a Cincinnati kindergarten teacher, have been documented lamenting the failure of this pathetic man’s horrific plan. Nowhere in America is safe from this radical ideology.
Many of these schools — including UNC Asheville — are public institutions, meaning our tax dollars are funding the perpetuation of violent indoctrination. Even private schools receive some government grants, meaning any school not addressing this problem is profiting from government-funded brainwashing that could eventually kill our president — or even us.
North Carolina and other states must do more than enact weak bans on DEI labels and departments. Taxpayers must demand that their legislators stop funding schools that promote an ideology that has repeatedly been shown to lead to violence and domestic terrorism, as well as conduct investigations into how this ideology spreads and impacts students.
If we do not, the consequences could be much worse than what we have already seen.
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Olivia D’Angelo is a journalist, editor, and policy analyst who graduated from UNC Asheville. She has also been featured in Newsmax, The Washington Post, and The College Fix. Follow her on X: @olivia_dangelo
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