I think we all knew this was coming. Any time Democrats get themselves in trouble, the media breaks out the “Republicans seize…” headlines. And sure enough, the Associated Press has gone there: “Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.” Here’s how the story opens:
Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day…
The clash over Jones’ violent rhetoric, shared in a 2022 private text message exchange published on Friday, comes just four weeks before voters in Virginia and New Jersey choose new state leaders. History suggests that the party that holds the White House — Trump’s Republican Party in this case — struggles in off-year elections, but Republicans hope the scandal might tilt next month’s elections in their direction.
It really says a lot about where we are that Republicans can only hope that a candidate’s desire to murder a Republican and see his children die might have some impact on the race.
And yet, if you’ve seen David’s post from a couple hours ago, you already know that may not be the case. At this moment, there are still plenty of Democrats happy to endorse the murdery-Dem for Attorney General.
David also mentioned this in passing but there’s a new allegation out today about someone else Jay Jones wanted to see die: The police. You see the text messages that got released last week were part of an ongoing argument that has started back in 2020 over the issue of qualified immunity. And during that earlier conversation Jones suggested that maybe if a few more police officers died, they’d be more hesitant to shoot people.
When asked what Jones was referencing when he said “I’ve told you this before,” [Del. Carrie] Coyner said it goes back to a heated phone call in 2020 about removing qualified immunity protections for law enforcement.
Coyner said Monday morning: “We had a pretty heated conversation about public policy and pain involving qualified immunity. I served on the Courts Committee for a short period of time. A bill to remove qualified immunity for police officers, which protects police officers from personal liability in their line of duty and their line of work, and he believed that they should not have qualified immunity, and he was trying to convince me to agree with that, and I said, ‘No, police officers have to make a split second decision about whether or not to shoot a gun to protect themselves or protect others. And if they’re having to think about, will this strip my whole family of everything … are they going to be able to make that split-second decision?’ And I said, ‘I believe that people will get killed. Police officers will get killed.’ And he said, ‘Well, maybe if a few of them died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.’ And I said, ‘that’s insane.’
This exchange appears to have happened directly, meaning there are no incriminating text messages. So of course Jones is denying it happened.
“I did not say this,” Jones said in a statement to Virginia Scope Monday afternoon. “I have never believed and do not believe that any harm should come to law enforcement, period. Every single day, police officers put their lives on the line to protect our communities, and I am deeply grateful for their service and sacrifice. As Attorney General, I will work hand-in-hand with law enforcement to support their work.”
Before Jones provided a statement, a lawyer for his campaign called Virginia Scope and would not agree to speak on the record, so Virginia Scope ended the phone call.
I don’t have any inside information but I’d bet money he’s lying. The whole argument only makes sense if Delegate Coyner’s account is true. They had the argument about police dying in 2020 at the height of the BLM hysteria and then two years later they had another argument over text in which Coyner said “You weren’t hoping to understand. You were talking about hoping Jennifer Gilbert’s children would die.”
Instead of denying it, Jones referenced their previous discussion when he replied, “Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Pain in this case is the pain of death. That’s what they’re talking about. It only makes sense if he’d previously said the same thing, i.e. that someone would only learn if people died. In the previous discussion, those people were cops. Jones was sponsoring legislation to remove qualified immunity from police in 2020.
It’s bad enough to have a guy whose ideology overrides his humanity toward children as the attorney general, but having one who wishes more police officers would die in the line of duty seems like a Rubicon that even Virginia Democrats should hesitate to cross. I know he denied it but he’s lying. We all know he’s lying.
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