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The phrase , in which he fantasized about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert; the phrase did not come from the new Virginia attorney general as a public quote. Multiple contemporaneous reports d...
Jay Jones’s leaked 2022 text messages contain explicit threats of violence — including phrasing that a Republican lawmaker “gets two bullets to the head” — alongside obscene, racist and antisemitic co...
The Virginia State Bar and other formal ethics authorities have no recorded public statement condemning or adjudicating Jay Jones’s leaked 2022 text messages; available public materials from the Bar a...
A series of recently disclosed text messages from Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones include violent language that explicitly referenced a Republican lawmaker and mentioned harm to...
Jay Jones did not, in the reporting summarized here, appear to reference a specific incident or named organization when texts surfaced in 2022 that fantasized about violence involving an opponent and ...
Jay Jones sent private text messages in August 2022 in which he reportedly fantasized about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wrote that Gilbert’s children should “die in their mother’s arm...
Jay Jones is reported to have made a specific, disturbing remark in 2022 during a follow-up phone call to Carrie Coyner: he said Todd Gilbert’s wife “could see her child die so her husband could recon...
Jay Jones’s 2022 text messages are reported to include the explicit phrasing, Multiple outlets cite that he added and that there were texts expressing a wish that Gilbert’s children die; Jones subsequ...
Jay Jones publicly apologized for text messages in which he used violent, inappropriate language; he expressed remorse and said the language “has no place in discourse,” in comments reported October 1...
The documents provided contain no direct reporting or verifiable context for a claim that *Jay Jones* said he would “kill someone’s children”; none of the supplied source summaries quote or describe s...
The available materials do not show any , so his “exact words in the text messages” cannot be produced from the provided sources. What is documented are public statements and ad transcripts that quote...
Comparable past leaks involving Jay Jones in 2025 centered on private 2022 text messages that surfaced showing violent fantasies about a GOP lawmaker; those leaks produced immediate bipartisan condemn...
Leaked text messages attributed to Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones were published in October 2025 and refer to messages sent in August 2022; reporting identifies National Review and multip...
Leaked text messages attributed to Jay Jones date from 2022—several reports specify August 2022—and include violent, graphic language directed at then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert and references to harm...
Media outlets and public officials treated Jay Jones’s 2022 violent text messages as a serious credibility problem that threatened his candidacy, provoking bipartisan criticism, calls from some groups...
Jay Jones is a lawyer and career politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, worked as an Assistant Attorney General in Washington, D.C., and was the Democratic nominee — and winner — fo...
Several national and local outlets reported the revelation of Jay Jones’s now-public text messages in October–November 2025, with initial coverage and sustained follow-ups across outlets including CNN...
Jay Jones was reported to have sent private text messages in August 2022 in which he fantasized about violence directed at then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert and described Gilbert’s children dying in the...
Officials, law enforcement and political actors reacted swiftly and sharply after leaked 2022 texts showed Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wishing death on his...
Available reporting shows Jay Jones was the subject of a scandal over resurfaced 2022 text messages in which he fantasized about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and referenced harm to Gilbert...