[BREITBART] A Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general was grilled about comments he made, pondering shooting a former Republican Virgina House Speaker and allegedly wishing death upon the lawmaker's children.In an interview with ABC 8News reporter Tyler Englander, Jay Jones was asked about his comments, and how Virginia could ''trust a man who said something so horrific.'' Englander's interview with Jones came after the National Review reported that in 2022, Jones sent messages to Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R), complaining about his colleagues ''eulogizing'' a recently deceased Democrat lawmaker, and going on to entertain thoughts of shooting former Virgina Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert.
Per the National Review, ''text messages'' obtained by the outlet showed that Jones wrote to Coyner, saying that, if faced ''with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets'' and had to pick between shooting either Gilbert or ''two dictators,'' he would pick Gilbert:
''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:
''A lot of politics is about trust,'' Englander said. ''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?''
''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 answered.
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