![]() ![]() The plan, as outlined to me, was to form an organization of veterans to use as a bluff, or as a club at least, to intimidate the government and break down our democratic institutions. SMEDLEY BUTLER: I appeared before the congressional committee, the highest representation of the American people, under subpoena to tell what I knew of activities which I believed might lead to an attempt to set up a fascist dictatorship. This is a clip of General Smedley Butler speaking in 1934. But Butler refused and revealed what he knew to members of Congress. The men asked the celebrated Marine Corps officer Smedley Butler to lead a military coup. ![]() and the former president of DuPont, Irénée du Pont. ![]() The coup plotters included the head of General Motors, Alfred P. ![]() Some of the nation’s most powerful bankers and business leaders plotted to overthrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in order to block the New Deal and establish a fascist dictatorship. Capitol and Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, we turn to look at a largely forgotten effort to topple the U.S. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.Īs the January 6th House committee and federal prosecutors continue investigation into last year’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. ![]()
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