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RealityChik

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17. Smedley Butler
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:53 PM
Mar 2020

When Prescott Bush and all his Nazi sympathizers organized a coup to overthrow FDR and install a Nazi style government as payback for FDR confiscating all their ill-gotten gains through investments that financed Hitler and the Nazis in Germany prior to WW!!.

The Army General, Smedley Butler, who was chosen by Bush et al to lead the military coup and overthrow, played along while he gathered evidence and right before the coup provided the smoking gun evidence that stopped the coup and prevented the FDR (my FAVORITE president of all time!) overthrow. Butler couldn't be threatened or bribed and chose to tell the truth than to sell out his country.

There are tons of articles about him and I read:
Devil Dog: The True Story of the Man that Saved America - David Talbot
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&k=devil%20dog%20smedley%20butler&ref=nb_sb_noss&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks

Wikipedia actually has full-featured documentation on the background, the issues, the players and the events around this. Good starting point for further research.

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