Posted on 10/17/2025 5:45:45 AM PDT by Libloather
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., stood by Virginia’s embattled Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones who sent text messages fantasizing about putting "two bullets" in his Republican rival's head and also suggested his ‘fascist’ children should die as well.
As Jones faces mounting calls to drop out of his race because of the text scandal, with his GOP opponent going so far as saying he should disqualify himself at a Thursday night debate, Jeffries suggested that Jones already did the right thing by apologizing.
"The attorney general candidate has appropriately apologized for his remarks, and I know his remarks have been condemned across the board by Democrats in the commonwealth [of] Virginia and beyond," said Jeffries, adding, "And that’s the right thing to do."
Fox News Digital reached out to the office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to ask whether he also stood by Jones but did not receive a response.
The Virginia attorney general’s race was rocked by resurfaced text messages sent by Jones to a colleague when he was serving as a state delegate. Jones texted Del. Carrie Coyner, R-Hopewell, in 2022, imagining a scenario where he would choose to kill then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert’s over Pol Pot or Adolf Hitler.
Jones wrote, "Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head." He then added in a subsequent text, "Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time."
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They agree with Jay Jones.
I don’t want to speculate how he rose in the ranks. He’s a democrat, after all. It could be anything.
What I do know is, he’s a neanderthal, racist, and dumb as a stump, without the personality of said stump.
TEMU Obama is a fitting moniker for both him, and Booker.
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