Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel
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
how long is this fucking article
In a statement to the Guardian, Roberts denied ever killing a dog with a shovel. He did not answer questions about why several people say he told them that he had.
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.
Marsha Weisiger, a colleague of Roberts at the time who is now an environmental history professor at the University of Oregon, recalled being invited to dinner at Roberts’s home with her husband, and Roberts telling both of them the story about how he had hit a neighbor’s pit bull with a shovel and killed it.
To make matters worse, she recalled Roberts saying that the neighbor in question also had puppies and that he had considered killing them, too. Weisiger’s husband, who asked not to be named, recalled Roberts saying he had complained about the dog to the police, who were not responsive, and that the dog sometimes got into his yard.
Daniel Aran, who has been released from prison and is now the owner of a small construction company, spoke to the Guardian from the front yard of the small stone house. Aran is lean and muscular, with a chiseled face and hardened stare.
$100 says that’s not the worst thing he’s ever done.
Word on the street is that he masterminded Project 2025.
Aran is lean and muscular, with a chiseled face and hardened stare.
So glad they included this vital piece of information. Also, Holy shit that article rambles on.
exactly
That's disturbing.
sheesh, what's up with the GOP? Are they the party of dog killers? 😬
They are a party of pet haters. Between going after cat ladies, killing dogs and accusing immigrants of killing pets, I just can't believe they have any love for pets.
They're just bitter that they can't have the "pets" they actually want.
They're the party of cartoon villians with long, curly mustaches
Projection ALWAYS with them lol
"I'm not gay and I hate gay people because they're so ho-I mean because they're so bad and stuff."
A week later: "I got caught being gay."
These people love killing dogs and bears and they hate cats so I’m guessing they are not nice people.
Killing dogs is apparently really popular with those people. Has me wondering if the "Haitians are eating dogs" lie was actually a confession.
Republicans are ghouls.
They don’t like anything that isn’t money
Yo wtf
Weird flex but ok
It was a fucking pit bull who sometimes got into their yard and the police were not responsive.
I have small kids, a fat pig and a tiny wife. Yeah, I'd shotgun that motherfucker stone dead. Y'all acting like he beat Lassie.
That's when you call a shelter or something. Unless the dog was visibly aggressive right off the bat, resorting to beating it to death with a shovel seems a bit extreme as a course of action.
police where not responsive
Either way a shovel is a pretty fucked way to do that. Also yeah bragging about it is fucking weird and gross, if I had to kill a dog out of defense I would probably not want to think about it again. Sounds pretty awful.
$10 says 'self-defense' was an excuse and the poor thing was just dropping dukes in his yard or something like that.
You think a shelter is going to take a mad dog when the police refuse to intervene?! Shelters are automatic, "kill all pits" crematoriums. Man the fuck up and handle it yourself if the authorities refuse.
Had to shoot a wild pig tearing up my yard and terrorizing my pet pig. Called the Humane Society, local pig shelter, cops (twice), animal control (twice), "We don't handle feral pigs." Cops: "It's up to the home owner to handle the situation as he sees fit." Fuck me. Had to shotgun and bury her and I fucking hated doing so. Still tears me up at times. What else was I to do?
LOL, libs can be Karens all day. "Gosh! Call the authorities! I pay my taxes so someone else will handle the ugly parts of life!" Well Karen, sometimes you have to grow a pair and deal with life and death. And most often, it sucks doing so.
Regardless, the article is extremely long and onion-y, and I wouldn't brag about it at a dinner party.
We don't know the circumstances as to how it came up. I don't brag about killing a wild pig in my front yard, I hated it, but I can see such a thing coming up in conversation.
"Nah. I hate the guy so he must have been bragging. Probably brought it apropos of nothing. 'So anyway, want to hear how I killed the neighbor's dog with a shovel?'"