The president of the Heritage Foundation allegedly told people he killed a dog because of its incessant barking

Former colleagues told The Guardian that Kevin Roberts, who is now the president of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, described killing a neighbor's pit bull around 2004. Roberts has denied killing the dog.

Kevin Roberts, chairman of the conservative Heritage Foundation and the "mastermand" of the Project 2025 plan for the next Republican administration, boasted to colleagues that he beat a dog to death with a shovel.

Roberts allegedly told university colleagues that he had killed the animal because it was "disturbing his family."

Republicans have a dog-killing problem. Just a few short months after Kristi Noem’s graphic tale about shooting her 14-month-old puppy in the head hit bookshelves as part of her panned autobiography, the mastermind behind Project 2025 finds himself in a similar controversy.

Former colleagues recalled to The Guardian that Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, told them that he had killed his neighbor’s pit bull around 2004 because the dog’s barking was bothering his family.

Donald Trump surrogate and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts is facing backlash for reports that he once bragged about killing a dog years ago.