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

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 relatively unknown history professor at New Mexico State University .

Roberts denies ever killing a dog with a shovel.

Project 2025 , the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, has become a focal point of the 2024 presidential election.

Public records and public records confirm that Daniel Aran and his mother lived nextdoor to Roberts at the time that Roberts lived there.

Aran was sentenced to 78 months in prison for cocaine trafficking in 2017 , more than a decade after the alleged incident occurred.

The Guardian could not independently verify whether Roberts actually killed a dog or whether Roberts ’s account of his interactions with his neighbor was accurate.

When asked if he had a dog disappear around 2004, he said: “Yes, definitely, my dog, my little female”.

The family has had a number of pit bulls over the years but it was the disappearance of Loca that had always distressed the family.

“We always knew it was strange that we simply never saw her again. [ Daniel] went out looking for her, but she was never found,” said Noriega .