FBI director Kash Patel’s girlfriend Alexis Wilkins has been forced to fend off the “incredibly disheartening” conspiracy theories that she is honeypotting the bureau’s head honcho for a foreign government.
The 26-year-old country artist said the skeptics are contorting her backstory, even as she acknowledged she can “understand” it.
“I think people see certain pieces and I get it,” Wilkins told the “Megyn Kelly Show” on Wednesday.
“They want to connect things, they want to justify, some of the pain that they’ve been through watching the last four years, and there’s pieces of this that, you know, I can understand,” she continued.
“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.”
Conspiracy theories about Wilkins exploded on the internet after the Justice Department and FBI’s July 6 memo about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which concluded that the evidence suggests Epstein killed himself in prison and did not keep an “incriminating client list.”
Some of the trolls speculated that the Arkansas-raised singer was a Mossad agent intended to compromise Patel, 45, and at least one of them misidentified her as Jewish.
One thread used to make that conspiratorial leap is Wilkins’ work for PragerU, a conservative nonprofit that seeks to educate the public on key political issues.
The CEO of PragerU, Marissa Streit, previously served in the Israeli army.
Wilkins is Armenian and Christian and does not appear to have any known ties to Israel.
When Kelly asked point-blank whether she was a spy for any foreign government, Wilkins replied, “Definitely not, that is a firm no on that front.”
Earlier this month, the country singer ripped into the online conspiracy theorists, raging that they are “farming” for attention “because their engagement dried up after Trump’s win.”
“It’s disappointing to see people with no real contribution to political discourse spin ridiculous conspiracy theories out of thin air,” Wilkins bemoaned in an X post. “These accusations are obviously insanely ridiculous.”
Patel and Wilkins met at a friend’s event in Nashville in 2022 and began dating several months later in early 2023.
“We just happened to meet,” Wilkins recounted, noting that the 19-year age gap she has with him always felt irrelevant.
“I have always liked [him], when I met him, I just liked that he was so, so honest,” Wilkins gushed. “He’s exactly who he is all the time. His character is incredible. His values are incredible.
“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.”
The country singer, who hosts a Rumble show, acknowledged there’s “not enough information out there about me to glean a real conclusion on all of this kind of vigilante research.”
She mused that those gaps have given room for internet trolls to fill with conspiracy theories, which she lamented as “incredibly disheartening.”
Patel has been “very frustrated” and “unhappy” with the hate and suspicion directed her way over the Epstein drama, Wilkins said.
She also underscored that Patel’s work on the Epstein drama is “limited to the government side” and that she has “no awareness besides what everyone else is seeing.”
“If people stop calling me a spy, absolutely,” she replied when asked if she wants to see more Epstein files released.
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