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President Donald Trump condemned Virginia Democratic lawyer basic nominee Jay Jones as an “animal” on Sunday, saying anybody else would discover themselves “in jail” for his textual content messages wishing loss of life on political opponents.
Trump made the feedback whereas speaking to reporters aboard Air Power One, simply days after Jones had repeatedly bashed the president in a marketing campaign debate in Virginia final week. Reporters pressed Trump on whether or not he deliberate to weigh in on the lawyer basic contest.
“You imply the one which needed to kill a few of his kids and kill any individual? You imply the animal that needed to kill any individual who shouldn’t be allowed to be operating for that workplace?” Trump stated when requested about Jones.
“He’s a third-rate mind, he’s a man who – I’ve by no means seen anyone say what he stated, that he needed to kill his opponent’s kids – he needed to kill his opponent,” Trump stated. “I can’t think about anyone voting for Jay Jones. Look, you’d assume he’s completely discredited. I might assume he wouldn’t even be allowed to do this; anyone could be put in jail for what he stated.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press on October 19, 2025 aboard Air Power One. The President is returning to Washington, D.C., after spending his weekend at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seaside, Florida. (Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Photos)
“He can be part of an extended record of lawyer generals which were suing and dropping,” Trump added.
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In messages first reported earlier this month, Jones texted Virginia state lawmaker Carrie Coyner in 2022, imagining a situation the place he would select to “fireplace two bullets” into then-Home Speaker Todd Gilbert’s head, describing Gilbert as worse than dictators Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler.
Jones additionally referred to Gilbert’s younger kids as “fascists” within the alternate.
Jones has since apologized for the textual content messages and says he’s now “embarrassed” by them.
Jay Jones, who’s operating to grow to be Virginia’s lawyer basic in 2025, has come beneath fireplace for a sequence of textual content messages calling for the loss of life of political opponents. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Put up/Getty Photos)
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The controversy hasn’t stopped distinguished Virginia Democrats from endorsing Jones, nevertheless. Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger endorsed Jones previous to the controversy and has since declined to withdraw the endorsement. Her marketing campaign web site can be nonetheless promoting Jones-branded merchandise.
The Republican Governors Affiliation, which is backing Spanberger’s opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, slammed Spanberger’s marketing campaign for persevering with to market Jones-branded merchandise greater than per week after texts surfaced depicting him envisioning the homicide of a GOP chief and his kids.
Abigail Spanberger declined to withdraw her endorsement of Jay Jones following his textual content controversy. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Put up/Getty Photos)
“Jay Jones threatened to homicide his political opponent and their kids, and Abigail Spanberger nonetheless totally endorses him and is attempting to make cash off it,” RGA fast response director Kollin Crompton advised Fox Information Digital.
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“If Spanberger is prepared to place partisan politics above doing the proper factor and standing as much as political violence, how can she be trusted as governor?” Crompton requested.
Fox Information’ Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
