American Coup: The Business Plot

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The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization to be used in a coup d'état to overthrow President of the US Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of the organization and eventual Dictator in Chief. SOURCES Jonathan M. Katz’s new book, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire The Business Plot Smedley D. Butler, Anti-Democratic Dissidence, and the Recession of the American Right 1932-1936 By Grant Hamilton Stone August 2021 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.

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