Billed as a “Swedish Defense and National Security Advisor,” Nils Bildt was a featured guest on Bill O’Reilly’s show this past week. Brought on to rebut the factual information U.S. correspondent for the newspaper Expressen Anne Sofie Näslund, Bildt and O’Reilly spun a yarn of white Swedish women, fearing for their safety. Swedish news source Dagens Nyheter (DN) explains that Bildt isn’t an expert on anything besides, maybe horses.
Nils Bildt is the son of Sven Tolling, well know in Swedish equestrian circles. Nils Bildt emigrated from Sweden in 1994. Nine years later he changed his last name from Tolling to Bildt, and he now runs several security companies in the United States. His last known address, according to Swedish registers, is in Tokyo. It is unclear if his companies are still in business.
Nils Bildt, who spoke on Fox News about crime in Sweden, is convicted of a violent offence himself, according to documents from Arlington General District Court in Virginia. Bildt was arrested on the 19th of June, 2014, for assaulting a law enforcement person and for obstruction of justice, after threatening an official [Case number: GC14002638-00].
He was also cited for being drunk and disorderly. When DN reached out to Bildt and to Fox News, Bildt said he didn’t choose the title and Fox News said lots of people told them to interview Bildt. An actual former Swedish defense analyst told the paper this:
Johan Wiktorin, a former defense analyst at the Military Intelligence and Security Service, MUST, says that he has never heard of Nils Bildt. ”He is unknown in Sweden as an expert on national security. The depiction of Sweden as a problem country in American media is a disturbing trend.”
Illegitimate President Trump made headlines last week when he made up a fake terrorist event in Sweden, which it turns out was a fib inspired by Fox News itself. O’Reilly’s roundtable event pitting two charlatans against an actual person with a verifiable set of facts is par for the course in this brave new world.