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"The man behind #Project2025 ... told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood #dog with a shovel...

Kevin Roberts, now the president of the #HeritageFoundation... told colleagues & dinner guests that he killed a neighbor’s #pitbull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown #history professor at #NewMexico State University."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog

#Republicans #Kill #Dogs #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News

Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel

^{Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)}

#News #History #politics #Dog #USA #Dogs #GOP #uspol #republicans #newmexico #project2025 #heritagefoundation #pitbull #kill

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[Looks like it's #Republicans, not #Haitians, who have a habit of killing their neighbors' #pets.]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog

#Project2025 #GOP #Dogs #Violence #News #USA #US #UnitedStates #USPol #Politics

Text from article and photo with caption.

Text: 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.

Photo: an image of a black and white pit bull

Caption: Loca, a female pit bull that belonged to Roberts’s neighbors, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Loca’s owners say she went missing in 2004, the year that Roberts is alleged to have said he killed his neighbor’s dog. Photograph: Courtesy of Daniel Aran

Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel

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

^{Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)}

#News #politics #USA #us #violence #Dogs #GOP #UnitedStates #uspol #republicans #pets #project2025 #haitians

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"“he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me... that he kind of lost it and took a shovel and killed the #dog. End of problem,” said Kenneth Hammond, who was chair of the university’s #history department at the time.

Two other people – a professor and her spouse - recall hearing a similar account directly from Roberts...

None recall Roberts... ever saying that the dog he allegedly said he killed was actively threatening him or his family."

#Project2025

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“My recollection of his account was that he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor’s dog had been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the baby and probably the parents awake and that he kind of lost it and took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem,” said Kenneth Hammond, who was chair of the university’s history department at the time.

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.

#History #Dog #project2025

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"News of Roberts’s alleged comments to colleagues comes as #Trump, the #Republican nominee for president, & his running mate, #JDVance, have engaged in a #racist & false #propaganda campaign to demonize #Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, #Ohio, by claiming that they have been killing & eating people’s #pets. The xenophobic claims... have incited multiple bomb threats that have disrupted the #Springfield community."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog

#GOP #Lies #TrumpLies #Republicans #News #USA

Text: The people who say they heard Roberts talk about killing a dog at the time said they found the apparent admission to be unsettling and said they did not ask Roberts – who as a conservative Republican was already seen as something of an outsider among the university’s mostly liberal academic staff – to provide any more detail about the incident.

“I think that probably people were not eager to engage with him over this. It sounded like a pretty crazy thing to do and people didn’t want to get into it at that point,” Hammond said.

News of Roberts’s alleged comments to colleagues comes as Trump, the Republican nominee for president, and his running mate, JD Vance, have engaged in a racist and false propaganda campaign to demonize Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, by claiming that they have been killing and eating people’s pets. The xenophobic claims, which are probably meant to strengthen support among white, racist and anti-immigrant voters, have incited multiple bomb threats that have disrupted the Springfield community.

Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel

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

^{Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)}

#News #USA #Trump #propaganda #GOP #republican #republicans #racist #pets #lies #ohio #JDVance #TrumpLies #springfield #haitian

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"Roberts is one of the most prominent #rightwing voices in #Washington. He has close ties to #OpusDei, the #Catholic group, and has spoken openly about how he considers the outlawing of #BirthControl to be one of the “hardest” #political battles facing #conservatives in the future."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog

#GOP #Misogyny #Project2025 #Women #WomensRights #HumanRights #ReproductiveRights #Abortion #Health #Healthcare #Freedom #Authoritarianism #Religion #Theocracy #Oppression #US #USA #Politics

Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel

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

^{Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)}

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