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Kash Patel's Girlfriend Turns To Lawfare To Silence Mossad Honeypot Speculation

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Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025 - 13:00

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In the early days of the second Trump administration, the appointment of Kash Patel as FBI Director was heralded as a testament to the president's commitment to keep his promise to finally vanquish permanent Washington's political establishment upon his return to the White House. Since being named FBI Director, Patel has transformed himself from an embodiment of Trump's crusade against the deep state into a distillation of the disappointment that once-fervent supporters of the president have become disillusioned by.

Patel's complicity in the cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein's extensive criminal enterprise has proven to be the catalyst behind his fall from grace. The undertones of the Trump administration's prioritization of Israel-first instead of America-first policies that are inextricably tied to the political fallout from the failure to release the Epstein Files™ have amplified the increased scrutiny Patel has faced from previously devoted supporters of his who have now become his most vocal critics. The dynamic driving how badly he has mismanaged his tenure as FBI Director is how Patel's has responded to criticism, as that has only served to legitimize the accusations of betrayal he has become mired in, digging the hole he finds himself into what may become the final resting place for his political career.

Yet, Patel hasn't only reacted to criticism made against him with poor foresight. On October 28th, Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, filed a defamation lawsuit against right-wing podcaster and CEO of RiftTV, Elijah Schafer, alleging that the defendant “perpetuated a malicious lie about Alexis Wilkins, falsely claiming that she—an American-born country singer—is an agent of a foreign government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the Director.” Although Wilkins is the plaintiff in the case, the filing is impossible to separate from from Patel as fingerprints of his influence are apparent throughout it. Wilkins is represented by Binnall Law Group in the suit, a law firm helmed by Jesse Binnall, Patel's personal lawyer and the president of his nonprofit organization, the Kash Foundation. The suit seeks in excess of $5 million in damages as restitution for what it describes as the insinuation made by Schafer that Wilkins is a Mossad agent who is part of a honeypot operation ensnaring the FBI director.

The basis of this allegation stems from a post made on X by Schafer on September 14th, when he quoted a tweet by user Hen Mazzig regarding a Mossad operation using female spies to seduce Iranian government officials. Schafer posted a picture of Patel and Wilkins from her Instagram when quoting Mazzig's tweet about the Mossad honeypot operation. While Schafer made no claim that Wilkins is indeed a Mossad spy, the lawsuit opines that "he didn't have to," as his tweet is part of a vast online conspiracy aimed at spreading a false narrative about her. Wilkins' attorneys assert that the picture of their client within the context of the original tweet by Mazzig is tantamount to a direct accusation that she is an Israeli spy, which rises to the threshold of actual malice needed to meet the legal definition of defamation, as they claim Schafer knows the allegation is "categorically false."

The lawsuit goes on to target Schafer for frequently posting "anti-Israel" rhetoric on his X account as well as for referring to Patel as a "traitor" in an effort to demonstrate that the defendant fabricated the "accusation" knowingly or with reckless intent as a means of pursuing financial gain from driving engagement on his posts to benefit from X's monetization program that he is enrolled in.

Just 3 days after filing the lawsuit against Schafer, Wilkins also filed a similar suit against former US Senate candidate Sam Parker in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. The lawsuit against Parker reads as a carbon copy of the one filed against Schafer, alleging that Parker's examination of Israeli influence on Wilkins from her relationships with Zionist platforms PragerU, The Daily Wire, and others constitutes a similar accusation that she is part of a Mossad honeypot operation aimed at infiltrating the US government by ensnaring Patel in a relationship. Like the lawsuit against Schafer, there is no citation of a formal accusation made by Parker against Wilkins. Instead, it points to speculative language made by Parker, such as "I feel like there's more going on here" when discussing Wilkins' relationship with Patel.

The repeated reliance on attacking implications made by Schafer and Parker demonstrates that each case is not being made on legal merit but that both instead serve as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, a type of frivolous lawsuit made to intimidate and silence critics. This textbook example of lawfare against political opposition is a tactic taken straight out of the playbook of the Democratic Party, central to their strategy against Trump ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election. Supporters of Trump, like Patel, who previously took aim at the weaponization of the justice system as an assault on free speech meant to topple over the pillars of American democracy, have now come to embrace the strategy as part of their own political arsenal.

Patel's legal axis first unleashed this strategy when it filed its first of these defamation lawsuits against right-wing influencer Kyle Seraphin in the United States District Court for the Western Division of Texas in August. Although the lawsuits filed against Schafer and Parker are not the first of their kind, they represent an escalation of the lawfare being stooped to by members of the Trump administration in an effort to silence their critics. Since returning to the seat of power ruling over America's political landscape, the right wing has embraced brazen hypocrisy when it has been aimed at its left-wing opposition, as evident from condoning the return of cancel culture aimed at leftists who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, among other instances. That moral resignation and abandonment of principle has now come full circle, as they have now become victims of the monster they have created.

Days after Wilkins filed her lawsuits against Schafer and Parker, FBI Director Kash Patel took to his personal X account to attack critics of his girlfriend. Patel categorized their attacks as "baseless" before going on to simp for Wilkins, waxing poetic about how she is a "country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes." Patel's post defending Wilkins also followed other criticism levied against him regarding their relationship, such as for his decision to use a government plane to take a 40-minute flight from Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia to State College Regional Airport to see his girlfriend perform at an event held at Pennsylvania State University. Which, like Patel, has faced criticism in the past for its own cover-up of high-profile pedophiles.

Though the FBI Director is mandated to use a government jet for travel as a national security measure, Patel's use of the jet for a personal matter during the government shutdown rekindled the ire of his critics. In another example of the hypocrisy that has been rife throughout his tenure, Patel previously criticized former FBI Director Christopher Wray for using a government plane for personal travel during an episode of his Kash's Corner podcast in 2023. Since making that admonishment, Patel has flown on the taxpayer's dime for various personal trips, including charity hockey matches, watching Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin break the NHL goals record while sitting alongside previous record-holder Wayne Gretzky, attending UFC fights, and regularly visiting his girlfriend in her home in Nashville.

Like with the handling of the Epstein Files™, the response Kash Patel has had to speculation surrounding his girlfriend demonstrates an absence of equanimity in the face of criticism that is inescapable for anyone in the echelons of power he has been thrust into. That inability to maintain grace under fire has exacerbated the issues that have marred his tenure as FBI Director, so much so that they have come to resoundingly overshadow any success he has had. Not only have those miscalculations increased doubt over his leadership, but they have exposed parallels between him and his predecessors at the FBI who he once maligned as everything he stood against. If those mistakes are not rectified, then the legacy of Kash Patel will not be one of a man whose character redefined the FBI as an institution, but one of a man who let the institution of the FBI redefine his character.

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