Youngkin calls for embattled Dem AG hopeful Jay Jones to drop out after vile texts surface wishing GOP lawmaker, children be shot dead
Virginia Gov.Glenn Youngkin called on embattled attorney general hopeful Jay Jones to drop out of the race after disturbing texts revealed him fantasizing about a GOP lawmaker getting shot twice in the head.The Republican governor tore into the Democrat nominee for Virginia’s top law enforcement post after a string of “violent” and “disgusting” text messages from 2022 surfaced showing him wishing the state’s then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children would be gunned down.“This violent, disgusting rhetoric targeted at an elected official and his children is beyond disqualifying,” Youngkin said on X Saturday morning.“Jay Jones said that ‘Gilbert gets two bullets to the head’ and then hoped his children would die.
Read those words again.There is no ‘gosh, I’m sorry’ here.
Jones doesn’t have the morality or character to drop out of this race.”He then fumed that Jones’ running mates – and every elected Democrat in the Old Dominion state – lacked the courage to demand the scandal-plagued candidate “step away from his campaign in disgrace.”The messages – first reported by National Review and later obtained by The Post – were sent by Jones on Aug.8, 2022, to Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner, who was seemingly shaken by their sinister tone.“Three people, two bullets,” read a text from Jones, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates.“Gilbert, Hitler, and pol pot.
Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”Coyner wrote back asking her twisted colleague to “please stop,” adding that it bothers her when he talks about “hurting people” or “wishing death on them,” suggesting a pattern of troubling behavior.Jones then doubled down, saying he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her “little fascists” children die, claiming it would change the former House speaker’s political views, according...