Former colleagues told the Guardian that Kevin Roberts, who is now the president of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, described killing a neighbor's pit bull around 2004. Roberts has denied killing the dog.

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.

Trump and Vance claim immigrants are killing pets, but the man behind a major conservative group is accused of killing a dog for barking too much.