{"id":327325,"date":"2026-01-23T04:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/newly-minted-virginia-ag-who-fantasized-about-opponents-family-dying-roasted-over-glaring-typo.html"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:17:38","slug":"newly-minted-virginia-ag-who-fantasized-about-opponents-family-dying-roasted-over-glaring-typo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/newly-minted-virginia-ag-who-fantasized-about-opponents-family-dying-roasted-over-glaring-typo.html","title":{"rendered":"Newly minted Virginia AG who fantasized about opponent&#8217;s family dying roasted over glaring typo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/55a999dd_image.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Jones elected VA attorney general, Fox News projects\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\" \/> <span class=\"overlay\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\">Video<\/span><\/a> <!--&gt; \n\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Jay Jones elected VA attorney general, Fox News projects<\/a><\/h4>\n\n \n\n<p data-v-324c3b57=\"\">Democrat Jay Jones will become Virginia\u2019s next attorney general, according to Fox News\u2019 projections.<\/p>\n\n \n\n<p class=\"speakable\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"speakable\">The error appeared in a graphic accompanying Jones\u2019 announcement <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">defending Virginia\u2019s in-state tuition law<\/a> for undocumented students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, Jones\u2019 predecessor, struck a lighter tone in a post that quickly gained traction online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"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 \u2018Hey, Tony\u2019 in a Jersey accent?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>JAY JONES OVERCOMES MOUNTING SCANDALS TO DEFEAT JASON MIYARES FOR VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/663a69b1_jay-jones-virginia.png\" alt=\"Jay Jones speaks during a campaign stop.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/> \n\n<p><span>Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones' latest gaffe was in an official release shared on social media this week spelling his title as \"Attoney General.\"<\/span> <span>(Maxine Wallace\/The Washington Post\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) mocked both Jones' error and the timing of the correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"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.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>SPANBERGER TAKES SWIPE AT TRUMP ADMIN, SAYS VIRGINIANS WORRIED ABOUT 'RECKLESSNESS COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON'<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/1173a7ec_miyares-speaking.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Jason Miyares is speaking\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/> \n\n<p><span>Former Virginia AG Jason Miyares seized the opportunity to share Jones' typo with his X following.<\/span> <span>(Kayla Bartkowski\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Review senior editor Jim Geraghty argued the typo barely registered compared to Jones\u2019 broader record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"The thing is, misspelling \u2018attorney\u2019 probably isn\u2019t even in the worst 200 things that Jay Jones has ever sent electronically,\" Geraghty quipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other users leaned into sarcasm, including one account that joked Jones was \"the Valedictorian of the Quality Learing Center.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A newly updated post now sits on Jones' official government X page, the graphic's typo scrubbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones began his term under heightened scrutiny after <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">facing backlash on the campaign trail<\/a> over resurfaced text messages where he fantasized about the death of political opponent House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the controversy, Jones was elected in what was considered a blue wave election last November alongside Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger.<\/p>\n\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/974d7e25_obama-spanberger.png\" alt=\"Barack Obama and Abigail Spanberger at a Jay Jones rally.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/> \n\n<p><span>Abigail Spanberger, left., and Barack Obama, right, stumped together with Jay Jones, not pictured, in Norfolk on November 2, 2025<\/span> <span>(Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The misspelling appeared to overshadow Jones\u2019 announcement that he was moving to <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">defend Virginia\u2019s in-state tuition law<\/a>, framing the decision as resistance to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"On day one, I promised Virginians I would fight back against the Trump Administration\u2019s attacks on our Commonwealth, our institutions of higher education, and most importantly \u2013 our students,\" Jones said in the release. \"Virginians deserve leaders who will put them first, and that\u2019s exactly what my office will continue to do.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics argued the optics of the typo undercut Jones\u2019 message, with the error quickly becoming an easy target amid a contentious fight over in-state tuition and immigration policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When reached by Fox News Digital, Jones' office did not acknowledge the typo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"In his first week in office, Attorney General Jay Jones has gotten to work protecting the Commonwealth from Donald Trump\u2019s actions that would raise costs on Virginia families and defending Virginians\u2019 rights from the Trump administration\u2019s attacks,\" a spokesperson for the Attorney General wrote in an email to Fox News Digital. \"He has acted quickly to block overreach and stand up for the people of Virginia. Attorney General Jones is already scoring wins on affordability and accountability while delivering real results for the Commonwealth.\"<\/p>\n\n --> <\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Baehr is a Breaking News Writer for Fox News Digital, where she covers politics, the military, faith and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/newly-minted-virginia-ag-who-fantasized-about-opponents-family-dying-roasted-over-glaring-typo<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Jasmine Baehr is a Breaking News Writer for Fox News Digital, where she covers politics, the military, faith and culture. Article source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/newly-minted-virginia-ag-who-fantasized-about-opponents-family-dying-roasted-over-glaring-typo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-327325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}