Or did Smedley Butler make it up?
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The Business Plot conspiracy in 1933. Gen. Smedley Butler claimed a plot to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état seizing power over FDR, is there any new research done on affirming or discounting?
What do we know about the supposed "business plot" of 1933?
Was the Business Plot even close to overthrowing the US government or was General Smedly simply exaggerating the plan? If it was as bad as he said, why were the perpetrators not arrested and put on trial?
How realistic was the "Business Plot" to overthrow FDR using WWI vets.
Was the Business Plot of 1933 (to overthrow FDR), with JP Morgan, Prescott Bush and others, an actual plot? Did it have any chance of succeeding?