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

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

17 Comments

  1. What is with these weirdos and their fixation on animal cruelty, you had rfk do that thing with the bear in central park, and the thing with whale head and chainsaw, my god

  2. It always ends up that people like this do stuff like that.

    He and Kristi Noem should date or at least sing maybe a country pop duet about their love of dog murder.

  3. God who the hell could mention it so callously. My dad hunted all his life and it still tore him up to shoot a couple dogs that were attacking our horses. The only time I considered it was when our dog was at deaths door with cancer and needed to be put down but we couldn’t get a vet on the phone and that dog was the closest thing I ever had to a son. Even in those cases it’s one bullet and over. What psycho could do it with a shovel.

  4. iplayedapilotontv on

    Why do Republicans hate America and dogs so much? I don’t associate with people who hate dogs. They give me bad vibes. Like they might support and vote for a man who raped children with Epstein.

  5. Everyone in Trump’s orbit is a f*in psychopath! 🤯
    This is like, what, the third one this month accused of basically the same thing?

  6. Effective-Pudding207 on

    What is it with all these people? Don’t think “mastermind” is the correct term. If this is true, this POS deserves the same fate. Asshole.

  7. That is a prerequisite with these far-right trash. Eventually you move up the food chain, until arriving and gleefully looking forward to doing it to people.

  8. >“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.
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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.

    So there are two direct accounts, one from the former “chair of the university’s history department”, no less, and others they told about the claim. I would call that “clear and convincing”, at the least.

    FWIW, I’ve seen many people suggest extreme measures to deal with barking dogs. I expect if he ever acknowledges any truth to this story, he will say it was just that sort of big talk. However, I’ve never heard anyone actually claim to have done what he is accused of.