Kevin Roberts, the now-president of the Heritage Foundation, allegedly told his colleagues and other guests at a dinner party in 2004 that he killed the neighbor’s pit bull with a shovel, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. The report includes interviews with his colleagues from the New Mexico State University from the time.

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,

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.

Kevin Roberts allegedly told guests about how he killed his neighbor's dog with a shovel and then denied the incident ever happening in a statement to the press.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's hopes of becoming Donald Trump's 2024 running mate were destroyed after she drew criticism for a dog-killing anecdote in her book "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.