Kash Patel's Girlfriend, 26, Confronted With MAGA Spy Accusations While Spilling on Their Relationship

Yahoo

7 days ago

Country artist Alexis Wilkins says she's had enough of the 'insanely ridiculous' conspiracy theories swirling around her romantic relationship with Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel.
In a wide-ranging interview on Megyn Kelly's show, the 26-year-old dismissed MAGA chatter accusing her of being a secret Israeli 'honeypot' agent planted to compromise Trumpworld via the 45-year-old Patel.
'It would have been a really long-game play,' she joked, noting she began dating Patel 'a little over two and a half years ago—so, long before he was the head of the FBI.'
The singer's pushback echoes a recent online statement in which she blasted 'accounts that are farming engagement' by branding her a Mossad asset.
Those claims erupted after the Justice Department said the long-awaited Epstein files contained no 'client list,' prompting furious MAGA influencers to look for a scapegoat.
Some trolls fixated on Wilkins' stint making educational videos for conservative education company PragerU. Online bios of the company's CEO, Marissa Streit, have noted her previous service in an Israeli intelligence unit—but there is no evidence that Wilkins has any connection to Israel.
The attacks on Wilkins came as part of a broader trend among young MAGA commentators who have folded Israel into their conspiracies around Epstein.
As reported earlier this month, one account even misidentified the Arkansas-raised singer as a 'Jewish' country singer. On Kelly's show, Wilkins confirmed that she is a Christian who spent part of her childhood in the U.K. and Switzerland.
A 2023 profile said Wilkins attended the Collège du Léman school in Switzerland—which former Fox News star Tucker Carlson also attended—and that her father worked for Gillette, while her mother was in the pharmaceuticals and aerospace industries.
Wilkins told Kelly she understands why people might think she was a spy. 'I think people see certain pieces and I get it,' she said.
'They want to connect things, they want to justify, you know, some of the pain that that they've been through watching the last four years, and there's pieces of this that, you know, I can, I understand.
'But I think that they've taken just these pieces of evidence that you laid out and tie them together in all of the wrong ways.'
Wilkins also walked Kelly through her small-town bona fides—growing up in Arkansas, shipping in country albums from the States while her family lived briefly in Europe—before revealing the Nashville house party where she and Patel first crossed paths.
'We just happened to meet,' she said, at an 'event that we both went to at a friend's house.'
The pair's 19-year age gap, Wilkins added, never felt relevant compared to his 'incredible character' and their shared patriotism.
'I have always liked, when I met him, I just liked that he was so, so honest,' gushed Wilkins. 'He's exactly who he is all the time. His character is incredible. His values are incredible.'
'And, you know, we both are very patriotic. So obviously there are things there that we definitely agree on, but he's just the most honest, you know, most integrity I've really experienced in a person, he's fantastic,' she added.
Regarding the spy claims, Wilkins' political persuasion is hardly a secret: she hosts a weekly Rumble show, has long worked with veterans' charities, and flatly rejects what she calls the 'left-woke institution.'
It's not 'like there's not enough information out there about me to glean a real conclusion on all of this kind of vigilante research,' she said.
But being outspoken, Wilkins argued, should not make her a target for antisemitic fantasies.
'Seeing these things twisted is not only very confusing, very out of left field for me, but also incredibly disheartening.
'It's, it's bizarre to me, you know, as a, as a—pretend I'm a third person—it just, it doesn't make any sense.'
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