Karoline Leavitt Rips ‘Shocking’ Texts From Dem Candidate in Virginia: ‘He Was Threatening to Kill His Opponent!’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday ripped Virginia Democrat Jay Jones for a series of leaked texts wishing death on a Republican.

At the time of writing, Jones was the Democratic Party’s candidate for attorney general in the state. According to a report from The National Review, Jones sent a series of violent messages about then-Virginia Speaker Todd Gilbert. In those texts — which he accidentally sent to a Republican colleague — Jones said that if he had two bullets and was standing in front of Gilbert, Adolf Hitler, and Pol Pot — “Gilbert gets two bullets.”

The Republican on the receiving end urged Jones to stop, but Jones continued. In a call between the two, Jones expressed his belief that Republican lawmakers need to feel the pain of their policy decisions. He also “wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views.”

In response to the messages, President Donald Trump called for Jones to drop out of the race.

During Monday’s White House briefing, Leavitt refused to make a political comment but also reaffirmed the president’s stance on the matter, calling Jones’s comments “completely unacceptable” and adding:

I think the president himself made his position very clear; and I think anyone could agree the messages that were sent by this Democrat nominee for Attorney General in Virginia are really shocking, alarming, and completely unacceptable. He was threatening to kill his opponent and his opponent’s children, and that type of rhetoric has zero place in our country; and the president was absolutely right to condemn that.

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