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Twenty-one U.S. presidential elections later, on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump stood before an angry crowd on the White House Ellipse. For weeks, Trump had urged supporters to join him in an action against the joint session of Congress slated to recognize his opponent, Joe Biden, as the next president that day. … Trump then did what the Business Plotters — however many there were — could not. He sent his mob, his version of Mussolini’s Black Shirts and the Croix de Feu, to storm the Capitol. “We fight like hell,” the 45th president instructed them. “And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch[1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.[2][3] Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under oath before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack–Dickstein Committee") on these revelations.[4] Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, "there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient."

Odd Names in History: Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940), American marine, nicknamed variously “Old Gimlet Eye”, “the Fighting Quaker”, and for some reason, “Duckboard”. Named for his grandfather, US Representative Smedley Darlington, Butler began his military career by lying about his age to fight in the Spanish-American War, continuing service all the way up to 1931, when he retired in response to being passed over for a promotion; he was highly decorated, but wound up disillusioned about the whole military-industrial complex, authoring a book called War is a Racket. He may have been a member of the Bonus Army. The most interesting thing, though, is his involvement in the Business Plot: an alleged conspiracy to assassinate/overthrow FDR and install General Hugh Johnson as the dictator of a fascist military state, backed by JP Morgan and thousands of disillusioned military veterans and aligned with Hitler and Mussolini. Butler betrayed the conspiracy to a special House of Representatives committee, who dismissed it entirely. No proof has ever been found of the Plot, although the Bush family is veeeeery insistent that people stop mentioning Prescott Bush’s name in conjunction with it.

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