{"id":1548325,"date":"2022-07-11T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548325"},"modified":"2022-07-11T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:35:08","slug":"3-star-army-general-suspended-over-tweet-mocking-jill-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-star-army-general-suspended-over-tweet-mocking-jill-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"3-Star Army General Suspended Over Tweet Mocking Jill Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2F3-star-army-general-suspended-over-tweet-mocking-jill-biden%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=1548325&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--><div class=\"header\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"label\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">American News<\/span> <span class=\"published\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">Jul 10, 2022 3:41 PM<br \/>\n                                    EST<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt mb-4\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n                                Volesky wrote in a now deleted tweet, &#8220;Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,&#8221; in response to a tweet from Jill Biden lamenting the overturn of Roe v. Wade.\n                            <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"content\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"reader-container\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<section class=\"cover\" data-v-1408f321=\"\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"author\" data-v-1408f321=\"\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"show-sm\" data-v-1408f321=\"\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"story-body\" class=\"article\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-content\" data-v-f313b7e6=\"\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"html-content\" data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<article class=\"html\" data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Retired 3-star Lieutenant General Gary Volesky was suspended last week from an Army consulting position after a tweet that &#8220;appeared to mock Jill Biden.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;For nearly 50 years,&#8221; Jill Biden wrote, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Volesky wrote in a now deleted tweet, &#8220;Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,&#8221; in response to a tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biography-about-jill-biden-sells-just-250-copies-in-first-week\">Jill Biden<\/a> lamenting the overturn of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\"><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-suspends-retired-general-contract-tweet-jill-biden\/7756968001\/?gnt-cfr=1\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Biden continued in her tweet, &#8220;Today, that right was stolen from us. 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\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><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>After his tweet in response, Volesky was suspended from his $92-an hour consulting contract with the US Army. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-general-jill-biden-tweet-volesky\/\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, Volesky was a senior mentor at the Pentagon but is now under investigation because of his comment about the president&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-general-jill-biden-tweet-volesky\/\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> reports Volesky is &#8220;a decorated officer with a long military career.&#8221; Volesky fought in the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the War in Afghanistan. He led the 101st Airborne Division from 2014 to 2017 and commanded the elite military unit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Corps_(United_States)\">I Corps<\/a> at Joint Base Lewis-McChord from 2017 to 2020.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Before the lieutenant general became a prominent spokesman for the Army he was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/army-suspends-ex-generals-contract-after-tweet-appears-mock-jill-biden-1723182\">Silver Star <\/a>for his service in Baghdad, Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/description-of-awards\/\">The Silver Star<\/a> is awarded to service people who fight heroically in combat or &#8220;who distinguish themselves through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty&#8221; while &#8220;engaged in action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Jill Biden became a professor of English after abandoning her first passion of fashion merchandising, a trade she <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20140831054148\/http:\/\/legacy.vogue.com\/magazine\/article\/jill-bidenbrall-the-vice-presidents-women\/\">found unsatisfying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Cynthia Smith, an Army Spokesperson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-general-jill-biden-tweet-volesky\/\">said<\/a> Volesky was suspended by commanding general of the Combined Arms Center Lieutenant General Theodore Martin and said Volesky&#8217;s future would be decided after the &#8220;commander\u2019s inquiry&#8221; into the incident.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"revcontent-slot\" data-v-4da339e1=\"\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<p>Ads by revcontent<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"contributions-container\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"partial contributions-epic\" data-v-37b8bc14=\"\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"inner\" data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">\n<h2 data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">Join and support independent free thinkers!<\/h2>\n<div class=\"words\" data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">\n<p data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">\n                    We\u2019re independent and can\u2019t be cancelled. 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