Dem AG nom Jay Jones joked about killing wife, children of Virginia GOP lawmaker, tries to apologize after getting caught | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

Dem AG nom Jay Jones joked about killing wife, children of Virginia GOP lawmaker, tries to apologize after getting caught | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Politically motivated violence is a joke for Jones, but it’s a reality for politicians and leaders who face threats of death daily.

Democrat Jay Jones is the 2025 nominee for Virginia’s attorney general and he’s trying to walk back horrific comments he made wherein he wished death upon a colleague and his children. “I am so deeply, deeply sorry,” he said, “for what I said. And I wish that it happened. And I would take it back if I could.” He didn’t begin his apology tour until he got caught.

Jones wants to be the top cop in Virginia who enforces the law in a nonpartisan manner, yet his personal beliefs are that people with whom he politically disagrees are worthy of “bullets” and so is their family. Apologies were not offered to the family he joked was deserving of murder until after the expose was published

It was revealed this week by National Review that Jones is a man who revels in politically motivated violence. In 2022, he sent texts to a colleague in which he joked about shooting former VA House Speaker Todd Gilbert.