Rob Riemen criticizes Wilders in emails to Hillary Clinton

The emails Wikileaks leaked that were adressed to Hillary Clinton, and those sent from her account, have caused a great uproar. The founder and president of the Nexus Institute, Rob Riemen, is mentioned in some of the emails.

The emails which contain information from Rob Riemen were posted on WikiLeaks on March 16, 2016. In February 2012, Riemen sent a memo to Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist close to both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Blumenthal forwarded Riemen’s memo straight to Hillary.

Blumenthal calls Riemen a friend in his email to Clinton: “Below is a memo written by my friend, Rob Riemen, president of the Nexus Institute, the leading intellectual foundation in the country.” In the memo Riemen explains the political culture in the Netherlands at that moment. His main focus is Geert Wilders’ political party, the Party for Freedom (Partij Voor de Vrijheid, PVV), which explains the title of the email: “WILDERS INFLUENCE IN NL.”

“Wilders has a complete control on the government, as without his support the coalition will no longer be in charge.”

In this memo Riemen stated that Wilders had “a complete control” over the government, “as without his support the coalition will no longer be in charge.” Because he supported the coalition, the government had to accept his viewpoints on certain issues such as Islam, Europe and culture. Supposedly, there was a sense of fear for the things Wilders wanted.

Riemen is anything but positive about Wilders and his party in his memo. He calls the book written by Martin Bosma (fellow member of the PVV) idiotic, because it compares left-wing politics to Hitler (because Hitler was a left-wing politician, according to Bosma).

Riemen believes it is a problem that Wilders and his neo-fascism ideas are accepted, because it is no longer acceptable to criticize him. The book Riemen wrote, ‘De Eeuwige Terugkeer Van Het Fascisme (The Eternal Return of Fascism)’, is mentioned multiple times in the emails.

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