Jay Jones knew the children he wished dead: VA Delegate Terry Kilgore

After Democrat nominee for Virginia attorney general Jay Jones was revealed to have had a desire for the killing of GOP politician Todd Gilbert as well as his children so that Gilbert would move on gun policy, a Republican in the state assembly has said that Jones knew the children at the time he made the comments.

Terry Kilgore, a Virginia State Delegate and leader of the GOP in the state legislature revealed on the Tucker Carlson Show that Gilbert's children were around the state assembly all the time and Jones would have known them. Carlson said to Kilgore, "This text exchange happened several years ago, and when it happened, the Republican to whom he was texting—I don't have any idea what that was about, but it happened—sent this exchange to the Speaker who was being threatened by Jay Jones, whose children were being threatened by Jay Jones? Did he tell anybody about it? Did you hear about it then?"

Kilgore responded, "I didn't hear about it. To be perfectly honest. I didn't know anything about it until the Friday that all this was released. And no, I think Todd was just handling it. You know, in a way, Todd normally handles things."

"Todd's a great guy, good friend. You know, his two little kids are just precious little kids, two little boys, you know, in school now, but at that time, they were around the General Assembly all the time. Everybody knew the Gilbert kids. And Jay Jones would have known the Gilbert kids. That's what's terrible about this whole situation. It wasn't like, 'hey, I want to kill a kid who's from another country.' You would know this kid, these kids, because you're around the General Assembly."

Carlson called the newly revealed information, "Horrifying."

In text messages between Jones as well as colleague House Delegate Carrie Coyner, Jones had written, "Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time."

Coyner then said, "Jay please stop." Jones then called Coyner, and in the conversation reportedly talked about the killing of Gilbert's kids so that the GOP political figure would move on his policy surrounding guns.

Coyner hung up and then Jones kept it up with text. Coyner pointed out that Jones was "talking about hoping jennifer Gilbert's children would die." (sic)

Todd responded with, "Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy." He went on to say, "I mean do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil? And that they're breeding little fascists? Yes."