{"id":1267137,"date":"2022-02-02T23:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267137"},"modified":"2022-02-02T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T04:08:31","slug":"peter-schweizers-red-handed-hits-1-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-schweizers-red-handed-hits-1-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schweizer\u2019s \u2018Red-Handed\u2019 Hits #1 on New York Times Bestseller List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeter-schweizers-red-handed-hits-1-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Peter Schweizer\u2019s blockbuster new book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/hardcover-nonfiction\/\">number one<\/a> on the <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;bestseller list, one week after its release by HarperCollins.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third consecutive <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;#1 bestseller for Schweizer, following his 2020 book&nbsp;<em>Profiles in Corruption<\/em>&nbsp;and 2019\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Secret Empires<\/em>. <em>Red-Handed<\/em> has also premiered at <a href=\"https:\/\/booklist.usatoday.com\/\">number one<\/a> on <em>USA Today\u2019s<\/em> bestseller list and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/charts\/2022-01-30\/mostsold\/nonfiction\/\">topped<\/a> the charts at Amazon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19460594\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/redhanded-hc-c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schweizer, whose past books have sparked an FBI investigation and exposed congressional insider trading that spearheaded groundbreaking legislation, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/12\/schweizer-forthcoming-red-handed-revelations-scariest-of-my-investigative-career\/\">called<\/a> the revelations in <em>Red-Handed<\/em> the \u201cscariest\u201d of his quarter-century career investigating corruption.<\/p>\n<p>As the book\u2019s subtitle states, <em>Red-Handed<\/em> exposes the vast complicity of elites \u2013 from politicians to diplomats to business, tech, and entertainment tycoons \u2013 who have enriched themselves by advancing the interests of China\u2019s communist regime.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Schweizer, who is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a Breitbart News senior contributor, spent over a year conducting the research for&nbsp;<em>Red-Handed<\/em>&nbsp;with his team of forensic investigators at GAI, combing through a trove of financial and corporate records. The book contains&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/16\/red-handed-contains-1093-endnotes-no-unnamed-sources\/\">1,093 endnotes<\/a>&nbsp;and 81 pages of source material with no off-the-record sources, making it easier for federal law enforcement and U.S. intelligence services to track down the book\u2019s bombshell revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/31\/exclusive-sen-marsha-blackburn-calls-for-special-counsel-to-investigate-biden-family-china-business-dealings\/\">have already<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/02\/exclusive-stefanik-cawthorn-support-appointing-special-counsel-on-biden-family-china-ties\/\">called<\/a> for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the revelations in <em>Red-Handed<\/em> concerning President Joe Biden\u2019s family members\u2019 business dealings with individuals with direct ties to the highest levels of China\u2019s spy apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Post\u2019s<\/em> editorial board <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/01\/appoint-a-special-counsel-on-hunter-biden-now\/\">echoed<\/a> these calls with an op-ed on Wednesday headlined, \u201cAppoint a special counsel on Hunter Biden\u2014now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Red-Handed\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/red-handed\/\">revelations<\/a> thus far include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How the Biden family&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/24\/bombshell-biden-family-scored-31-million-from-deals-with-individuals-with-direct-ties-to-the-highest-levels-of-chinese-intelligence\/\">scored some $31 million<\/a> from five deals in China, all with individuals with direct ties to the highest levels of China\u2019s intelligence apparatus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How a Chinese global energy company linked to a Chinese intelligence operation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/red-handed-6-million-biden-family-deal-was-with-ye-jianming-who-had-ties-to-a-spy-linked-united-front-group\/\">sent close to $6 million<\/a> to Hunter Biden in 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How American elites \u2014 including the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/01\/22\/peter-schweizers-red-handed-exposes-communist-chinas-silicon-valley-sympathizers\/\">purposefully aid the communist regime<\/a> of China<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/24\/red-handed-reveals-chinese-donations-to-university-of-pennsylvania-soared-after-biden-center-announcement\/\">donations from Communist China<\/a> to the University of Pennsylvania almost tripled after the university established a \u201cBiden Center\u201d in 2017 and gave former Vice President Joe Biden a professorship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How&nbsp;Hunter Biden planned to share his family\u2019s office space in Washington, DC, with a Chinese intelligence-linked firm that employed a man Hunter described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/biden-family-planned-to-share-office-space-with-company-employing-fking-spy-chief-of-china\/\">the f**king spy chief of China<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How Hunter Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/01\/31\/belt-and-road-biden-how-hunter-helped-chinas-hegemonic-scheme-to-overtake-the-u-s\/\">business deals were helpful<\/a> to the Belt and Road Initiative, which is China\u2019s colonialist scheme for buying influence across the Third World and luring poor nations into taking loans from Chinese banks they can never repay<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How 23 former U.S. senators and congressmen (most of whom are Republican) have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/31\/red-handed-23-former-u-s-senators-and-congressmen-who-lobby-for-chinese-military-or-chinese-intelligence-linked-companies\/\">lobbied for Chinese military or intelligence-linked companies<\/a> after leaving office<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/27\/red-handed-how-the-bush-family-cashed-in-on-friendship-with-chinese-official-involved-in-the-tiananmen-square-massacre\/\">Bush family cashed in<\/a> on friendship with the Chinese official involved in the Tiananmen Square massacre<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, was the part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/01\/26\/revealed-sen-dianne-feinsteins-husband-partly-owned-a-chinese-company-that-sold-spyware-to-u-s-military\/\">sold computers with spyware chips<\/a> to the U.S. military<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) softened her previous criticism of the Chinese Communist Party as her husband and son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/26\/beijing-nancy-pelosi-shifted-her-china-stance-as-her-family-scored-beijing-deals\/\">scored big business deals<\/a> in China<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How&nbsp;Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has followed in his father Pierre\u2019s footsteps both in assuming high office and in using it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/02\/red-handed-obviously-my-family-has-historical-ties-with-china-how-beijing-bought-off-the-trudeaus\/\">further the interests<\/a> of the Chinese Communist Party<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schweizer\u2019s track record investigating both Republicans and Democrats is well-established, winning him a unique mix of bipartisan praise for his investigative work from both the left and the right. After the release of Schweizer\u2019s bestselling&nbsp;<em>Clinton Cash<\/em>, liberal columnist Eleanor Clift&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/behind-the-man-who-outed-clintons-cash\">called<\/a>&nbsp;Schweizer \u201can equal-opportunity investigator, snaring Republicans as well as Democrats.\u201d Clift added: \u201cIt\u2019s a mistake for the Clinton campaign to write off conservative author Peter Schweizer as a right-wing hack. It won\u2019t work, and it\u2019s not true.\u201d Similarly, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-clintons-citizens-united-and-21st-century-corruption\/2015\/05\/08\/7f11a0d6-f57b-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201con any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that Schweizer has charged is corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schweizer is also the author of&nbsp;<em>Throw Them All<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Out<\/em>, which, according to left-leaning&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2012\/03\/andrew-breitbart-1969-2012.html\">Slate<\/a>, was \u201cthe book that started the STOCK Act stampede.\u201d The bipartisan STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) banned insider trading by members of Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The legislation received overwhelming support from both parties. One of the main figures featured in Schweizer\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Throw Them All Out<\/em>, then-chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Spencer Bachus (R-AL),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2013\/10\/01\/rep-spencer-bachus-won-t-seek-reelection\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;he would not seek reelection after the book\u2019s reporting. CBS\u2019s&nbsp;<em>60 Minutes<\/em>&nbsp;did an investigative report on Schweizer\u2019s revelations that won them the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cbs-news-wins-all-three-awards-at-rtca-dinner\/\">Joan Shorenstein Barone Award<\/a>&nbsp;for excellence in Washington-based journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Schweizer\u2019s blockbuster new book\u00a0Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win\u00a0hit number one on the New York Times\u00a0bestseller list, one week after its release by HarperCollins. 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