New ‘attoney’ general opens tenure with major blunders, gets mocked online

Democrat Jay Jones was elected the new attorney general for Virginia, and readers will recall his claim to fame was that he gruesomely fantasized in text messages about the death of his political opponent, former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, and Gilbert’s children.

Whatever mental conditions that were needed for him to put himself in such an extremist position apparently have stayed with him.

As he committed two huge blunders just after taking office, issuing a statement on letterhead carrying his predecessor’s name and then boasting of his position as “Attoney General.”

Social media turned his antics into entertainment.

First, the comment made under the title of Republican AG Jason Miyares:

Virginia’s new AG Jay Jones, who took office today out with an opinion on the constitutionality of the proposed redistricting amendment (so quick, in fact, that his letterhead still has his predecessor’s name). https://t.co/llRZEYoKoL pic.twitter.com/sexiQJHAcp

— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) January 17, 2026

Miyares responded with a logical question:

I said what???? https://t.co/4Tz21c58i0

— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) January 18, 2026

Then came Jones’ own defective job description:

I’m an attoney! pic.twitter.com/X12WF1pFWL

— Bruce ████ (@BBIC0N) January 22, 2026

He is, after all, the state’s “Attoney General,” apparently.

At RedState was the comment, “Maybe if you’re holding a position, you should know how to spell it? I mean, that’s just a thought, but it seems reasonable.

“But, given the issues Jones already had, it’s perhaps not surprising that he couldn’t even get such basic things right. 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.'”

Miyares again came to the rescue with counsel for Jones.

Go easy folks. Perhaps someone on the staff was just saying “Hey, Tony” in a Jersey accent? pic.twitter.com/XdyRF3JGTv

— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) January 22, 2026

And commentator Nick Minock suggested Jones got his degree from Minnesota’s “Quality Learing Center.”

People are having fun with Jay Jones’ “Attoney General” post.

One of the comments on my Facebook page: “He got his degree from the Quality Learing Center.” https://t.co/pFEUtkwPYW pic.twitter.com/bxx2glC9cX

— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) January 22, 2026