Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said his opponent Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, is fundamentally unfit to serve as the state’s top prosecutor due to deep personal and professional disqualifications.
Miyares joined Monday’s edition of The John Fredericks Show to discuss his debate against Jones last Thursday, where he zeroed in on the Democrat’s purported calls wishing death upon a political opponent, their children, and police officers.
“Your number one job as Attorney General is to stop violence. This is a guy who’s advocated for violence against his political enemies. He wants to piss on the grave of Republicans, and he wants to see children die in their mother’s arms…and telling a colleague that he wanted to see cops die,” Miyares said.
“I cannot think of anyone that has disqualified themselves quicker than Jay Jones in this election by his own words,” he added.
Miyares called Jones’ worldview “chilling,” warning that such a person cannot be trusted with prosecutorial discretion or the power of the office.
“Imagine somebody who has a worldview that thinks pain is an acceptable way to view your fellow Americans, a mom with small children. Again, in his worldview, that’s how change occurs for the good. That is chilling to me, and it’s part of the reason why I have such quiet resolve to win this race because that is a worldview that should never be close to power,” he said.
In addition to Jones’ alleged violent text messages, Miyares also criticized his opponent’s reckless driving case, where Jones was caught going 116 mph but received no jail time and no license suspension, unlike other defendants in the same court that day.
Miyares accused Jones of lying to the court about fulfilling his 1,000 hours of community service and emphasized how his case has resulted in multiple bar complaints, raising serious doubts about whether Jones could remain in good standing with the Virginia Bar, which is a legal requirement for serving as attorney general.
“By law, by statute, you have to be an active member in good standing of the Virginia State Bar to do this job. You are the lawyer for the state of Virginia. To be the top prosecutor, you have to have a license in good standing of the state bar. So he is facing real questions whether he can even candidly do the job, even if he was elected,” Miyares explained.
“By all accounts, he doesn’t have the judgment or the temperament for this job,” he added.
Beyond Jones’ ethical issues, Miyares said his opponent has no prosecutorial experience and fundamentally doesn’t understand the job, as evidenced by his debate performance where he mentioned President Donald Trump over 50 times.
“What he really should be running for is Congress or the U.S. Senate. He said [Trump’s] name 52 times. What does that have to do with anything? It shows me he doesn’t even understand the job that he is seeking,” Miyares said.
Miyares concluded by emphasizing how Jones is not just unqualified – noting how wouldn’t pass a background check to be a clerk in the attorney general office, let alone lead it – but dangerous to the integrity of Virginia’s justice system.
“He wouldn’t pass a background check to be a prosecutor, not just in this office, any attorney general office in the entire country. How in the world could he be given that badge on his first day of office and then somehow try to lead the men and women of the Virginia State Police, the men and women of local law enforcement, all of these multi-jurisdictional task forces that our office is part of? How in the world can he ever, with a straight face, speak at a human trafficking conference, knowing everybody in that room knows that he has wished violence on children?” Miyares said.
“By every objective standard, he doesn’t have the experience for this job,” he added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Virginia Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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