‘Sick and demented’: Trump demands that Virginia AG candidate drop out over 2022 texts:
President Trump on Sunday called for Jay Jones to withdraw from the Virginia attorney-general race, citing text messages the Democrat sent in 2022 fantasizing about shooting a Republican state official.
Mr. Trump described Mr. Jones as a “radical left lunatic,” accusing him of making “SICK and DEMENTED jokes, if they were jokes at all, which were not funny, and that he wrote down and sent around to people, concerning the murdering of a Republican Legislator, his wife, and their children.”
A recent National Review report detailed the violent texts Mr. Jones, who briefly represented Norfolk in the Virginia General Assembly, sent to a Republican state legislator about then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
In the messages to then-Delegate Carrie Coyner, Mr. Jones vented frustration over Republican praise for state Delegate Joe Johnson Jr. following his death.
Referring to Mr. Gilbert and other GOP figures, Mr. Jones wrote that if they died before him, he would attend their funerals “to p—- on their graves” and “send them out awash in something.”
Mr. Jones went further, writing: “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
He added, “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”
The National Review report showed that Mr. Jones was initially called out for his early texts by Ms. Coyner — “Jay, please stop” - but he doubled down.
According to the conservative magazine, Mr. Jones called Ms. Coyner and referred to Mr. Gilbert’s minor children as fascists and suggested that Mr. Gilbert’s wife witnessing the death of one of their children might change his political views. --->READ MORE HERE
Report: VA AG Candidate Suggests Killing Cops Would Lower Shootings:
The Democrat candidate for Virginia’s attorney general allegedly suggested that if more police officers were killed then they would shoot fewer people, according to new allegations.
Jay Jones allegedly made the violent suggestion in a telephone conversation with Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner in 2020, according to a new report from Virginia Scope.
Coyner said she and Jones had a “heated conversation about public policy and pain involving qualified immunity.”
Coyner said Jones was trying to convince her to agree that police officers should not have qualified immunity (which, in Coyner’s words “protects police officers from personal liability in their line of duty and their line of work”).
“And I said, ‘I believe that people will get killed. Police officers will get killed.’ And [Jones] said, ‘Well, maybe if a few of them died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.’ And I said, ‘that’s insane.’ But he firmly believed that if you removed qualified immunity, that police officers would act differently, and I firmly believe that it would not result in good public policy, and it would put police officers and the public’s lives at risk if they have to second-guess themselves on a decision they’re making in a moment where someone is doing something violent,” Coyner said.
Virginia Scope reports Jones’ team has denied the allegations. The Federalist contacted Jones’ team, as well as gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Ghazala Hashmi to see if either would reconsider their decision to double down on Jones’ endorsement. None of the parties returned a request for comment at the time of publication. --->READ MORE HERE
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