Overview
- Stuart Knechtle, an assistant pastor with a large social-media following, told The George Janko Show he spoke with the 19-year-old by phone around 12:30 a.m. about faith.
- He said accounts of Muslims reporting dreams of Jesus were what resonated with Barron, highlighting what he called eyewitness testimony.
- Knechtle asserted Barron is “very close to putting his faith in Christ,” a statement reported Friday by multiple outlets without independent confirmation.
- The White House did not immediately comment, and no direct statements from Barron or his family have corroborated the pastor’s account.
- Barron has been living at the White House while attending NYU’s Washington, D.C., campus, and he was baptized as an infant in 2006 at an Episcopal church in Palm Beach.