Republicans have condemned Democratic Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones after text messages emerged in which he talked about shooting a former Virginia House Speaker.
Jones reportedly told a Republican colleague in 2022 that, in a hypothetical scenario, if he were in a room with then-Republican Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, Adolf Hitler, and Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, and he had two bullets, he would shoot Gilbert twice.
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones texted Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner.
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Jones made the statements after recently resigning from the state’s House. He had been expressing anger about the statements Republicans made eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Jr. He said that he would
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