Virginia Tech professor Matthew Gabriele endorsed Jay Jones and criticized Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA following the conservative leader’s assassination.
A college professor who gave a full-throated endorsement to embattled Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones also targeted Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA in the immediate aftermath of the conservative titan’s assassination.
Matthew Gabriele is a professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. On his profanity-laced @profgabriele.com profile on the social media platform Bluesky, he has also cursed out Republicans and advocated against open debate.
“Delighted to have met Virginia’s next Attorney General today — Jay Jones!” Gabriele said in a March post with a smiling photo with the candidate.
A second photo embedded into the post shows Jones speaking at an intimate get-together with only a few other people in attendance.
“F— this s—, we fight”, Gabriele said in a follow-up post. “We’ve beaten fascists before and we’re gonna do it again.”
Jones has been embroiled in scandal since a text message conversation from 2022 emerged in which he fantasized about killing then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah.
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head”, one text said.
