{"id":1546011,"date":"2022-07-09T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546011"},"modified":"2022-07-09T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:34:13","slug":"army-suspends-retired-three-star-general-launches-investigation-for-tweet-mocking-jill-bidens-abortion-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-suspends-retired-three-star-general-launches-investigation-for-tweet-mocking-jill-bidens-abortion-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Suspends Retired Three-Star General, Launches Investigation For Tweet Mocking Jill Biden\u2019s Abortion Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farmy-suspends-retired-three-star-general-launches-investigation-for-tweet-mocking-jill-bidens-abortion-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546011&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-army\">U.S. Army<\/a> has indefinitely suspended a retired three-star general from a consulting position, pending the results of an investigation into a tweet mocking an abortion post from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jill-biden\">First Lady Jill Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-suspends-retired-general-contract-tweet-jill-biden\/7756968001\/?gnt-cfr=1\">confirmed<\/a> that retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky, who was \u201cadvising senior military officers, staff and students participating in war games and other military activities,\u201d has been suspended without pay from his $92 an hour contract over a reply tweet to FLOTUS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today, that right was stolen from us,\u201d Biden tweeted on June 24, reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/roe-v-wade\"><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAnd while we may be devastated by this injustice, we will not be silent. We will not sit back as the progress we have already won slips away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlad to see you finally know what a woman is,\u201d Volesky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/09\/army-suspends-general-tweet-mock-jill-biden\">mocked<\/a> FLOTUS in a reply tweet.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. <\/p>\n<p>Today, that right was stolen from us. <\/p>\n<p>And while we may be devastated by this injustice, we will not be silent. We will not sit back as the progress we have already won slips away.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/1540434135650639877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leading Democrats and the White House have been hammered by critics for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-officially-proposes-extending-title-ix-to-transgender-students\">advocating<\/a> for policy that differentiates boys and girls and men and women based on gender identity, rather than biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh asked the simple question, \u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d when challenging the radical gender theory. In his groundbreaking documentary \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-is-a-woman-why-the-left-cant-answer-the-question\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d academics and others espousing the ideology struggled to answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say that biology has nothing to do with womanhood,\u201d Walsh has written at The Daily Wire. \u201cWell, then what does have something to do with womanhood? If we cannot define a woman physically, how can we define her? What is a woman? What does the word mean? If you are on the Left, what exactly are you trying to say the word, woman, means? When you say that such and such biological man is a woman, what are you actually trying to convey about that person? What do you mean that Lia Thomas is a woman? What is that supposed to mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volesky\u2019s criticism of Biden seems to be in the same vein.<\/p>\n<p>An Army spokeswoman confirmed to USA TODAY that it was the commander\u00a0of the Combined Arms Center,\u00a0Lt. Gen. Theodore Martin, who suspended\u00a0Volesky.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the reply tweet will ultimately determine Volesky\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>The three-star general, who boasts a Silver Star, in the past has tweeted that the House\u2019s January 6 committee \u201cis all about partisan politics,\u201d Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/09\/army-suspends-general-tweet-mock-jill-biden\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-is-a-woman-why-the-left-cant-answer-the-question\">What Is A Woman? Why The Left Can\u2019t Answer The\u00a0Question<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army has indefinitely suspended a retired three-star general from a consulting position, pending the results of an investigation into a tweet mocking an abortion post from First Lady Jill Biden. USA TODAY\u00a0confirmed that retired Lt. Gen. 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