Alexis Wilkins looks astatine her boyfriend, Kash Patel, arsenic helium speaks aft being sworn successful arsenic the caller Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi successful the Eisenhower Executive Office Building astatine the White House connected Feb. 21, 2025 successful Washington, D.C.
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Alexis Wilkins, the longtime woman of FBI Director Kash Patel, is suing an ex-agent and self-described whistleblower for defamation, alleging helium called her a erstwhile Israeli spy whose narration with Patel is simply a "honeypot" operation.
The defendant, Kyle Seraphin, "has maliciously lied" astir Wilkins by "falsely asserting that she—an American-born state singer—is an cause of a overseas government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the Director of the FBI," Wilkins' lawyer wrote successful the lawsuit filed Wednesday successful national tribunal successful Austin, Texas.
Wilkins accuses Seraphin, a blimpish podcaster who calls himself a "recovering FBI agent," of "using this fabricated communicative arsenic self-enriching clickbait."
Wilkins is seeking astatine slightest $5 cardinal successful damages. The suit was archetypal reported by Reason and highlighted Friday greeting by Court Watch.
Her ineligible ailment homes successful connected Seraphin's comments connected "The Kyle Seraphin Show" connected Aug. 22.
Patel "has had his ain small 'honeypot' contented that's been going connected of late, truthful we're conscionable going to admit it existent publicly," Seraphin said connected the occurrence astatine the halfway of the lawsuit.
"He's got a woman that is fractional his age, who is seemingly is some a state euphony singer, a governmental commentator connected Rumble, a person of John Rich done [FBI lawman Director Dan] Bongino, who besides present owns a large chunk of Rumble, and she's besides a erstwhile Mossad cause successful what is similar the equivalent of their NSA."
"But I'm definite that's wholly because, like, she's truly looking for similar a cross-eyed, you know, benignant of thickish built, ace chill bro who's astir 50 years aged who's Indian successful America," Seraphin said sarcastically.
"Like it has thing to bash with the information that uh we're truly adjacent to the Trump administration," helium said. "Anyway, I'm definite that's wholly conscionable similar love. That's what existent emotion looks like."
Seraphin did not place Wilkins by name, but her suit says his connection is "obviously astir her specifically."
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Wilkins, 26, said her semipermanent narration with Patel, 45, began successful January 2023 and has been nationalist knowledge. Patel was confirmed arsenic FBI manager successful February.
Seraphin, discussing the suit astatine magnitude on his show connected Friday morning, noted that akin claims astir Wilkins person antecedently surfaced successful societal media posts that person generated importantly much attraction than his comments did.
By calling her a honeypot, Seraphin is suggesting that Wilkins is "an cause of a overseas authorities who began a narration with different for purposes of manipulating and compromising them," the suit says.
"He is accusing Ms. Wilkins of being a spy for a overseas government, conducting espionage to undermine our nationalist information and/or to manipulate national instrumentality enforcement astatine the highest level, and adjacent committing treason," her lawyer wrote.
"Ms. Wilkins is not adjacent Jewish, overmuch little Israeli, and has ne'er acceptable ft successful Israel ... The conception that her narration with Dir. Patel is portion of immoderate crippled against her state is vile and ridiculous."
Seraphin, connected his show, said helium ne'er made those claims.
The suit argues that since Seraphin "trades connected his experience" arsenic a erstwhile FBI counterterrorism agent, helium cannot assertion that helium comments were specified hyperbole.
It besides notes that Seraphin met with some Patel and Wilkins "at a blimpish governmental lawsuit astir 2 years ago," earlier helium was confirmed arsenic FBI director.
Seraphin said connected his amusement Friday greeting that helium had nary recollection of having met them.
NBC News reported successful January that Patel had reached retired to Seraphin and 2 different blimpish erstwhile peculiar agents anterior to being nominated to pb the FBI.
Patel "keeps tabs connected maine and the guys that he's helped out, and besides we stock accusation astir FBI stuff," Seraphin told NBC astatine the time.
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