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

The leading figure behind a hard-right policy manifesto reportedly boasted about killing his neighbor’s dog with a shovel.Kevin Roberts—president of the Heritage Foundation, which produced the Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump presidency—bragged to colleagues and dinner guests about the alleged incident in 2004,

Kevin Roberts' former colleagues tell The Guardian that the Heritage Foundation president once recounted murdering his neighbors' pet

The architect of the Project 2025 manifesto for remaking the federal government to serve Donald Trump allegedly told colleagues that he killed a neighbor's dog with a shovel because it was a nuisance.