DERANGED: Democrat Virginia AG Nominee Fantasized About K*lling GOP Speaker in Resurfaced Text Messages

[Conservative Angle]

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This is completely and utterly deranged…

Resurfaced text messages from Jay Jones, who is the Democrat Party’s nominee for Virginia Attorney General, reveal some pretty disturbing and violent fantasies.

In a series of texts from 2022, Jay Jones told his colleague that then-GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert should be shot and killed.

He also took aim at Gilbert’s family, including his two young children.

See the disgusting texts here for yourself:

The private messages offer a disturbing glimpse into how Jones — who is looking to oust incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares this fall — describes his political adversaries in private conversations. pic.twitter.com/vvbtcn4vIQ

— National Review (@NRO) October 3, 2025

Here’s a closer look at the text messages:

The National Review was the first to report on the messages.

Here’s an excerpt from the original report, which provides some additional context:

On August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early-morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year’s Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general.

Jones, who at the time had recently resigned from the state house after a brief stint representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Jr., a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics. Republican legislators like House Speaker Todd Gilbert had begun making public statements honoring Johnson’s memory and political legacy, and some of those statements were making the rounds in state legislative group chats.

Around 8 a.m., Jones shared those feelings with his former state legislative colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner. In a series of text messages obtained by National Review, Jones derided Johnson’s political centrism and scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death.

“Damn that was for mark,” he wrote to Coyner, suggesting he’d meant to send the texts to someone else. And yet that realization didn’t stop Jones from joking about what “that POS” Gilbert “would say about me if I died.”

Then, the conversation took a dark turn.

“If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, referencing the Republican colleagues who were publicly honoring the deceased Johnson’s memory, “I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something.”

Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he’d shoot Gilbert “every time,” prompting pushback from his former colleague:

The private messages offer a disturbing glimpse into how Jones — who is looking to oust incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares this fall — describes his political adversaries in private conversations. The violent rhetoric complicates an already contentious and competitive race roughly a month out from Election Day in Virginia, where early voting began on September 19.

Asked about the years-old text exchange, Coyner condemned Jones’s rhetoric and said she sent screenshots of the conversation to Gilbert that day. She said she and Jones haven’t spoken since, aside from a brief conversation about policy issues. “On August 8, 2022 I had a text conversation with Jay Jones, what he said was not just disturbing but disqualifying for anyone who wants to seek public office,” she told NR in a statement. “Jay Jones wished violence on the children of a colleague and joked about shooting Todd Gilbert. It’s disgusting and unbecoming of any public official.”

In case you’re wondering, here’s a photo of Todd Gilbert with his lovely wife and kids — all of whom Jay Jones apparently wished were dead:

These are the kids Jay Jones wants to kill btw https://t.co/euCe8Tx1W6 pic.twitter.com/mBw4mc34PF

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 4, 2025

I can’t fathom ever wishing violence on a political opponent or their family — especially innocent children.

This guy is obviously messed up in the head and definitely not the kind of man anyone should trust with a position of power!

Calls are growing for him to immediately drop out of the race.

Winsome Earle-Sears, who is the Republican candidate for Virginia Governor, held a press conference to condemn Jay Jones:

WINSOME EARLE-SEARS responds to Dem AG candidate Jay Jones' violent text messages: "The calls for hate and violence are coming from the mouths of the Democrat Party's leaders." pic.twitter.com/IaU8LIIz0r

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 5, 2025

In a post on X, she noted that her Democrat opponent has not called for him to drop out of the race:

Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesn’t have the guts to tell him to drop out. pic.twitter.com/8CAjNqqWBI

— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 3, 2025

Even the Vice President of the United States called for Democrats to join him in calling for Jones to drop out:

The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages. I'm sure the people hyperventilating about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this very deranged person to drop out of the race. https://t.co/ZapsWc9VFG

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 4, 2025

Jay Jones has responded to the deserved backlash against him…with a totally lackluster ‘apology.’

Watch his attempt to put this all behind him here:

WATCH: 8 News grills Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones who wrote that he wanted to put "two bullets to the head" of the GOP leader: "A lot of politics is about trust. I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians… pic.twitter.com/zZh1NNtAhG

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 4, 2025

WATCH: 8 News grills Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones who wrote that he wanted to put “two bullets to the head” of the GOP leader: “A lot of politics is about trust. I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians trust a man who said something so horrific, so callously?”

Jones: “Well, again, I am so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish that it hadn’t happened, and I would take it back if I could.”

Jones clearly doesn’t want to deal with the consequences of his actions.

CBS News also shared this ‘apology’ statement from Jones:

In a statement to CBS News, Jones said he took full responsibility for his actions.

“I want to issue my deepest apology to Speaker Gilbert and his family. Reading back those words made me sick to my stomach. I am embarrassed, ashamed, and sorry… I have reached out to Speaker Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife Jennifer, and their children. I cannot take back what I said; I can only take full accountability and offer my sincere apology,” Jones said.

What do you think?

Do you accept his lame apology?

Or should Jones be forced to drop out of the race for his threats of political violence?

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