In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush (George W. Bush's grandfather) who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a c**p to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1934 Butler testified to the McCormack--Dickstein Congressional committee on these claims. In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible. One of the purported plotters, Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their report, the Congressional committee stated that it was able to confirm Butler's statements other than the proposal from MacGuire which it considered more or less confirmed by MacGuire's European reports. No one was prosecuted.

In 1936, William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, wrote a letter to President Roosevelt in which he stated,
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a f*****t state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the f*****t regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the N**i regime.... A prominent executive of one of the largest corporations, told me point blank that he would be ready to take definite action to bring f*****m into America if President Roosevelt continued his progressive policies. Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing f*****t regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help F*****m occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there. Propagandists for f*****t groups try to dismiss the f*****t scare. We should be aware of the symptoms. When industrialists ignore laws designed for social and economic progress they will seek recourse to a f*****t state when the institutions of our government compel them to comply with the provisions."
The proven record of Prescott Bush's involvement in financing the N**i war machine dovetails with the fact that he was part of a criminal cabal that actively sought to impose a f*****t c**p in America.

President George Walker Bush's grandfather (Prescott Bush) and great grandfather (George Herbert Walker) were among Wall Street's ultra-right wing elite. Before WWII, they were among the key players who coordinated the flow of investments from American multimillionaires into Germany. They profited by helping to coordinate the American financing behind Hitler's rise to power. During the war, they even profited from companies that armed the N**i war machine and used s***e labour at Auschwitz. Then, after the war, Prescott Bush was instrumental in helping to launder N**i l**t for Fritz Thyssen, who was one Hitler's earliest and richest industrialist backers.