Trump calls on Democrat Va. AG nominee Jay Jones to resign over violent text messages

President Donald Trump has called on Jay Jones, a Democrat nominee for Virginia attorney general, to drop out of the race over disturbing text messages he sent in 2022 that recently came to light.

Jones, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, is running against Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, with the election slated for Nov. 4.

Recently, Jones has garnered national attention for text messages he sent back in 2022 in which he joked about having a fantasy of shooting to death a Republican political opponent.

In a post on Sunday to his social media site Truth Social, Trump called Jones a “Radical Left Lunatic” and denounced the “SICK and DEMENTED jokes” made by the Democratic candidate.

“Democrat Jay Jones should drop out of the Race, IMMEDIATELY, and the People of Virginia must continue to have a GREAT Attorney General in Jason Miyares who, by the way, has my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump wrote.

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We’ve all heard it before from politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle. They finally reach the end of their stump speech or broadcast, pause dramatically, and then warn you that “This is the most important election of our lifetime.”

Sure, sure. That’s what you said last time. And the time before that. But the election came and went, and the world didn’t stop spinning. The sun didn’t darken. Life went on.

But life is changing fast in these not-so-United States. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed a surge in deadly acts of politically motivated violence — almost all of them perpetrated by leftists of one rotten flavor or another (pro-LGBT, Antifa, anti-ICE, pro-abortion, pro-Hamas, you name it), and almost all of them targeting conservatives, Christians, or Republicans.

Most notably, of course, was the public assassination of conservative Christian hero, husband, father, and now martyr Charlie Kirk, just four short weeks ago.

If you, as a normal patriotic American citizen, had hoped that the left would “tone things down” after Charlie was shot through the neck — and explicitly for his Christian and conservative beliefs and speech — you would be wrong.

Instead, the Left is doubling down on its violent rhetoric. After all, if the only “good fascist” is a “dead fascist” (and these days anyone to the right of Bill Clinton is a fascist), why would they stop? Why indeed when you understand that not only is the left not ashamed of using speech and slogans that incite physical and even deadly force against their opponents but that they feel completely morally justified in doing so. They think we are Nazis. That you are a Nazi. And what do you with Nazis? Well, you know.

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