The fake news media plotted to destroy Kash Patel from the moment President Trump named Patel as his pick to run the FBI.
Patel finally decided enough was enough.
And Kash Patel dropped the hammer on the fake news media by going nuclear in this fight.
Patel’s Girlfriend Takes MSNOW to Court
Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, filed a defamation suit against Versant, the parent company of MSNOW, and Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig over a December 5, 2025, report alleging that Patel ordered his security detail to take an intoxicated Wilkins home.
In the lawsuit, Wilkins disputed that this ever happened and argued that Leonnig and Dilanian knew that she didn’t drink.
“Defendants falsely asserted that Ms. Wilkins demanded, and Director Patel ordered, that federal agents assigned to her security detail—which did not even exist at the time—escort an intoxicated friend home after a “night of partying.” They falsely portrayed Ms. Wilkins as being intoxicated, even knowing that she does not drink. Defendants presumed they could get away with this fiction by citing to “anonymous sources,” disingenuously claiming “nonpublic” and “inside” knowledge. This was hogwash, and they knew it,” the lawsuit stated.
“This is entirely false. Director Patel has never ordered any FBI agent or member of Ms. Wilkins’ security detail to escort any of Ms. Wilkins’ friends home— inebriated or otherwise—nor did Ms. Wilkins ask any of them to do so,” the lawsuit went on to say.
The lawsuit included the first two paragraphs of the offending story.
“FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.
Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, asked FBI agents on her security team at least two times, including once this spring, to drive her friend home, and agents objected to diverting from their assignment, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss nonpublic matters. But Patel insisted they do as Wilkins requested and, in one case, called the leader of Wilkins’ security detail and yelled at him to do so,” Leonnig and Dilanian wrote.
The lawsuit also went on to claim that Leonnig and Dilanian knew that Wilkins didn’t have a security detail at the time of the incident in question.
“These supposed demands/orders never take place, but the entire scenario is fabricated. No FBI agents have ever escorted any of Ms. Wilkins’ friends home,” the lawsuit stated.
“Defendants claimed in the Article that the substance of their defamatory allegations supposedly occurred in spring 2025. Notably, Ms. Wilkins did not have a security detail at that time. Defendants were aware of this,” the lawsuit continued.
MSNOW defended their reporting.
“We stand firmly behind MS NOW’s reporting. As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on ongoing legal matters,” MS NOW President Rebecca Kutler declared.
A Pattern of Attacks
The fake news media also attacked Kash Patel as a drunkard.
An Atlantic Magazine piece authored by Sarah Fitzpatrick claimed “They said that he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff. He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends. Early in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights, six current and former officials and others familiar with Patel’s schedule told me.”
Fitzpatrick also alleged that Patel’s security detail had to bust down a locked door with a battering ram to wake Patel from a drunken stupor.
Patel also denied those allegations and filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic.
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