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Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004

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 toformer 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.

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Two other people -- a professor and her spouse - recall hearing a similar account directly from Roberts at a dinner at his home. Three other professors also said they heard the account at that time from the colleagues who said they had heard it directly from Roberts.

None recall Roberts -- who worked at the university as an assistant professor from 2003 to 2005 -- ever saying that the dog he allegedly said he killed was actively threatening him or his family.

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Puppy trained to retrieve pheasants goes after neighbor's chickens. A puppy can't tell the difference. Everything about that was infuriating.

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

Take dog that's not well trained to a pheasant hunt.
Get mad at dog for not being a well-trained pheasant hunting dog.
Realize you don't have enough cages to take all the dogs back safely. Leave the untrained dog in the back of your truck hoping it jumps out and dies or runs away because you're mad at it.
Stop by a friend with chickens. OMG the untrained dog that was left unsecured in the back of your truck that you've been teaching to hunt birds has killed some chickens.
Shoot the dog because you're angry.
Shoot a goat as well because you're already on a rampage and hate it too.