The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, country singer Alexis Wilkins, has filed a defamation lawsuit against MS Now for a report the outlet published alleging Patel had ordered Wilkins’s security detail to give her friends a ride home. The outlet, formerly MSNBC, published a report in December 2025 based on three anonymous sources that […]
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Country singer Alexis Wilkins, girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, filed a defamation lawsuit against MS NOW on Friday, claiming the outlet "knowingly and recklessly published lies" about her. The lawsuit challenges a December story citing anonymous sources alleging Patel directed FBI agents to drive Wilkins's drunk friend home after a Nashville gathering, The New Republic reported. Wilkins's legal team characterized the reporting as "hogwash," asserting she is 27 years old and "does not drink." They noted that a security detail for Wilkins had not been established at the time of the story, marking the first instance in U.S. history that an FBI director extended such protection to a significant other. Wilkins's attorneys said in the filing that she "very rarely drinks." The suit accuses MS NOW of advancing its own agenda at Wilkins's expense. This comes after Patel's accusations of excessive drinking, which he has denied.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend and country singer Alexis Wilkins has filed a lawsuit against MS NOW, claiming that the outlet's reporting about her use of FBI agents is "hogwash," according to reports on Monday.Wilkins had filed the defamation lawsuit on Friday, citing that "MS NOW had knowingly and recklessly published lies about her," The New Republic reported. The lawsuit involved a December story that included anonymous sources claiming that Patel told FBI agents to take Wilkins's drunk friend home after a night of partying in Nashville. “This was hogwash and they knew it,” Wilkins's attorneys wrote in the 16-page suit, which also claimed that the security detail had not yet been created for the FBI director's significant other, who is 27 and "does not drink." "She does concretely have one now—the first time in U.S. history the bureau’s director has extended such protection," The New Republic reported.However, the story never reported that Wilkins was inebriated, yet the singer's legal team has appeared to be confused over the details of her claims. "In their filing, her team contradicted themselves, later writing that Wilkins 'very rarely drinks,'" according to The New Republic."As a country singer, author, and political advocate, known for her Christian, patriotic, America-First, and pro-law enforcement values, her brand and ability to work in her profession would be significantly damaged if her employers, her publishers, her listeners, or her readers, believed that she was abusing the public trust and using her relationship with Director Patel to misappropriate FBI resources," according to the suit.The suit has accused MS NOW of writing a story "in George Costanza fashion" in order "to self-promotingly advance their own agenda and notoriety" at the expense of Wilkins.Rebecca Kutler, MS NOW president, shared a statement with Raw Story regarding the lawsuit."We stand firmly behind MS NOW’s reporting. As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on ongoing legal matters," Kutler said.Patel has been accused of excessive drinking in a report from The Atlantic and faced grilling from lawmakers over the allegations, which he has denied.
The internet was mocking Alexis Wilkins, FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend, after she filed a defamation lawsuit against MS NOW and claimed the organization's reporting "damaged" her reputation over reports that she used FBI resources through her boyfriend for her personal advantage.In the lawsuit filed Friday, Wilkins cited a December story that included anonymous sources claiming that Patel told FBI agents to take Wilkins's drunk friend home after a night of partying in Nashville. "As a country singer, author, and political advocate, known for her Christian, patriotic, America-First, and pro-law enforcement values, her brand and ability to work in her profession would be significantly damaged if her employers, her publishers, her listeners, or her readers, believed that she was abusing the public trust and using her relationship with Director Patel to misappropriate FBI resources," according to the suit.Rebecca Kutler, MS NOW president, shared a statement with Raw Story regarding the lawsuit."We stand firmly behind MS NOW’s reporting. As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on ongoing legal matters," Kutler said.Political commentators responded to Wilkins's suit and the claims."Kash Patel girlfriend and 'country music sensation' Alexis Wilkins is suing MS NOW over reporting that she used FBI agents to drive a drunk friend around," Will Sommer, senior editor for The Bulwark, wrote on X."Kash Patel’s girlfriend Alexis Wilkins sues MS NOW for defamation citing the novel legal standard: 'This was hogwash and they knew it,'" Ron Filipkowski, editor in chief of MeidasTouch, wrote on X."Her brand would be damaged if people thought she used Kash Patel to get FBI perks? Babe, if you’re dating Kash Patel, your brand is already wearing hazard lights," user Sundae_Gurl, a progressive social media account and frequent political commentator with more than 128,000 followers, wrote on X."Kash Patel continues to attack freedom of the press via the girl who is his friend. 'Alexis Wilkins, through her relationship with FBI Director Kash Patel, abused FBI resources' is the claim made in this latest lawsuit. How could anyone believe a non-spouse has power to abuse government resources she doesn't control? The Binall Law Group looks like they are simply attacking Patel's critics in the press by pretending to defend the girl-who-is-his-friend," Kyle Seraphin, a podcaster and former FBI agent with more than 246,000 followers, wrote on X."Can't wait to see them argue how a non-FBI employee and non-FBI spouse's access to a SWAT team protective detail and taxpayer funded jet isn't abusive," Steve Friend, FBI whistleblower and host of The American Radicals Podcast, wrote on X.
Former bureau officials have created the FBI Support Network, an organization designed to provide legal, mental health and job search assistance to current bureau employees struggling under what they characterize as a politically motivated restructuring of the agency under Director Kash Patel.The initiative, an offshoot of the Justice Connection organization comprised of former Justice Department employees, emerged in response to what former officials describe as unprecedented strain within the bureau, reported the New York Times."There's an incredible amount of tension inside the agency right now," said Michael Mason, a former senior executive. "People are being fired without any due process as the Justice Department is being weaponized in a way that is totally unfamiliar to those of us who served long and distinguished careers there."The network includes Brian Driscoll, who served briefly as acting FBI director in early 2025 and clashed repeatedly with the administration until he was fired in August."It's time for those of us who served our country with the F.B.I. to offer our assistance to the special agents, intelligence analysts and the professional staff who are under attack," Driscoll said in announcing the group.Patel has consistently denied firing agents for political reasons, claiming terminations target individuals biased against the president. However, his statements have triggered angry confrontations during congressional hearings, with Democratic lawmakers accusing him of dishonesty.Former counterintelligence agent Michael Feinberg criticized the transformation, emphasizing that law enforcement should remain apolitical. “You investigate threats and prosecute criminals without fear or favor," Feinberg said. "Seeing that norm not just eroded but purposely destroyed is fundamentally changing the nature and culture of the FBI.”He added that Patel's denials demonstrated a "wide gulf" between the director's public statements and what FBI employees see on the job.“I think the way a lot of employees feel right now is that at least some senior career executives have been willing to compromise with Kash Patel in those matters in an effort to secure their own employment," Feinberg said. "It’s difficult to articulate how much of a betrayal of the FBI ethos this is.”
The F.B.I. Support Network offers legal, mental health and job search services to current agency employees. Its founders say the work force is incredibly strained under Kash Patel.
MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire struggled to make sense of President Donald Trump's latest weekend social media posting spree.The 79-year-old president posted dozens of times across more than 12 hours Saturday, including a lengthy tirade against a federal judge and numerous AI-generated memes celebrating himself in fantastical scenarios, and the "Morning Joe" host attempted to describe the posts to viewers."Right now, we want to turn to President Trump, who spent most of his Saturday posting on his Truth Social platform," Lemire said. "Again, the president's first post at 11:50 a.m. was a more than 700-word rant about a federal judge who on Friday ruled that the Kennedy Center must remove Trump's name from the building. Over the next 14 hours, Trump posted more than 60 times, finally ending at just after 1 a.m. Sunday morning.""His social media spree included political memes attacking his perceived political rivals, memes about crime under his administration compared to former President Biden, multiple AI-generated pictures, including two separate posts of Trump on Mount Rushmore and at least three posts with George Washington, one of which was the two men on horses near a Trump-branded NASCAR vehicle with the Washington Monument and the White House in the background, and, for good measure, a space shuttle flying over them," Lemire added. "You know, this is not going to help the accusations that President Trump is focused solely on himself and his own priorities."The posts offer a window into the president's thinking, agreed co-host Katty Kay, and she said the view wasn't particularly appealing. "It's pretty clear where the president's head is at at the moment," she said. "He's had this long-running war with Iran, long by his standards, not long, of course, by international standards, that is not going well. He's deeply frustrated by that. When he hits a roadblock in the pet things that he is really focused on, and that he feels a part of his legacy, like the Kennedy Center then and like the reflecting pool, then he gets peeved, and when he gets peeved, he reaches for his phone, and no matter how many people around him say it would be better to take the president's phone away from him during the course of particularly weekend nights, he doesn't want to do that." - YouTube youtu.be
Platner campaign claims MS NOW's account is 'flat out inaccurate.'