REPORT: Project 2025 Leader Killed Dog With Shovel

The Guardian reports:

The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to former colleagues who spoke to the Guardian.

Kevin Roberts, now the president of the Heritage Foundation, is alleged to have told colleagues and dinner guests that he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown history professor at New Mexico State University. Two other people – a professor and her spouse – recall hearing a similar account directly from Roberts at a dinner at his home.

Read the full article. Others who reportedly heard Roberts brag of the incident say he gave no indication that the dog was menacing anybody. Hit the link, no paywall.

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