Newly minted Virginia AG who fantasized about opponent's family dying roasted over glaring typo
Newly sworn-in Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones drew swift online mockery Thursday after his office released a statement referring to him as "Attoney General," an error that critics seized on...
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Newly sworn-in Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones drew swift online mockery Thursday after his office released a statement referring to him as "Attoney General," an error that critics seized on as emblematic of his first major move in office. The error appeared in a graphic accompanying Jones’ announcement defending Virginia’s in-state tuition law for undocumented students. Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, Jones’ predecessor, struck a lighter tone in a post that quickly gained traction online. "Go easy folks," Miyares wrote on X with a screengrab of the faux-pas circled in red. "Perhaps someone on the staff was just saying ‘Hey, Tony’ in a Jersey accent?" JAY JONES OVERCOMES MOUNTING SCANDALS TO DEFEAT JASON MIYARES FOR VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL The Virginia GOP offered a sharper jab, saying it "took him a whole day to fix this," suggesting the mistake lingered longer than it should have. The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) mocked both Jones' error and the timing of the correction. "Jay Jones is struggling," RNLA posted. "This time he moved so quickly to change the letterhead from his last embarrassment that he forgot how to spell his new title." SPANBERGER TAKES SWIPE AT TRUMP ADMIN, SAYS VIRGINIANS WORRIED ABOUT 'RECKLESSNESS COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON' National Review senior editor Jim Geraghty argued the typo barely registered compared to Jones’ broader record. "The thing is, misspelling ‘attorney’ probably isn’t even in the worst 200 things that Jay Jones has ever sent electronically," Geraghty quipped. Other users leaned into sarcasm, including one account that joked Jones was "the Valedictorian of the Quality Learing Center." A newly updated post now sits on Jones' official government X page, the graphic's typo scrubbed. Jones began his term under heightened scrutiny after facing backlash on the campaign trail over resurfaced text messages where he fantasized about the death of political opponent House Speaker Todd Gilbert and hi…