Jay Jones was sworn in as Virginia’s new attorney general on Saturday at the state Capitol in Richmond after winning the race despite leaked texts in which he fantasized about the children of conservatives being murdered.
Jones was sworn in at the inauguration of Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA agent.
President Donald Trump had called for Jones to drop out of the race after the texts were made public, but Democrats rallied behind him.
In one shocking exchange, Jones fantasized about putting “two bullets to the head” of then-Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert in a hypothetical scenario comparing him to dictators like Hitler and Pol Pot.
Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesn’t have the guts to tell him to drop out. pic.twitter.com/8CAjNqqWBI
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 3, 2025
Jones didn’t stop there; he went even further, expressing a twisted wish that one of Gilbert’s children would die in a school shooting to change Gilbert’s stance on gun control.
“I wish one of his kids would get shot up at school and die. Then maybe he’d change his mind,” Jones wrote, adding grotesque details about imagining the child “lying lifeless in their mother’s arms.”
Vice President JD Vance also called for Jones to step aside.
“The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages,” Vance wrote in a post on X during the election season. “I’m sure the people hyperventilating about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this very deranged person to drop out of the race.”
At the inauguration ceremony, the judge asked, “You ready?”
“Yeah, baby,” Jones responded, before being sworn in.
NOW: Virginia’s new Democrat Attorney General Jay Jones was just sworn in after endorsing the m*rder of Republicans and their children.
Absolutely devastating and terrifying.
Virginia, you need to fix this in the next election. pic.twitter.com/kUar5brvrz
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 17, 2026
Jay “Republicans and their children should be brutally murdered” Jones is officially sworn in as Attorney General of Virginia. pic.twitter.com/OJv6Mvp5Lj
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 17, 2026
It was a day of tokens for the Democrats.
Spanberger was the first woman to be sworn in as governor, Ghazala Hashmi was the first person born in India to be sworn in as lieutenant governor, and Jones was the first black person to become the state’s attorney general.
Watch the full ceremony here:
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