Conservative talk radio legend Michael Savage drew a connection between Peter Schweizer’s bombshell book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans and Congress finally acting to address the concerns around the China-owned app TikTok.
On Wednesday, the Republican-led House passed H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — which essentially issues an ultimatum to TikTok, urging it to divest from China or face a ban in the United States. More specifically, the legislation forces TikTok to divest from the parent company, ByteDance — which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — and sell to a company in a non-adversarial nation.
Schweizer’s Blood Money is all about the influence China has on the United States behind the scenes — from its role in the fentanyl crisis plaguing the nation to its influence through apps such as TikTok, manipulating agendas, sowing seeds of discord, and pushing narratives. The book which involved over a dozen researchers compiling data — including restricted Chinese military documents and American financial records — for well over one year.
Speaking to the New York Times bestseller, Savage pointed out during his Wednesday show that Congress is acting after the release of Schweizer’s book, which blows the lid off China and its influence.
