It seems like FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, who cosplays as a country singer, has been simply dying to follow in her beau’s footsteps. So she’s brought her very own, completely meritless defamation lawsuit against the press. What fun!
Wilkins is suing MSNOW and reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian for reporting in December 2025 about Patel giving Wilkins her very own security detail, which is sometimes used to play Uber for Wilkins and her drunk friends after a night out in Nashville.
This lawsuit shares the same lawyers as Patel’s whinefest of a lawsuit against The Atlantic for its incredibly detailed and well-sourced reporting of Patel being a drunken toddler on the job. It also shares the same hilariously dumb theory of what constitutes defamation.
According to the supergenius lawyers, if Patel, Wilkins, or the FBI tell a reporter before publication that something is not true and the outlet publishes it anyway, noting the denial, that’s defamation. How? Because the outlet now knew it was false and published it anyway.
You will not be surprised to learn that this isn’t actually how defamation law works, because if it did, public figures like Wilkins and government officials like Patel could thwart any negative reporting simply by saying, “Nope, not true.”
Perhaps realizing they needed to try to get around this wee problem, Wilkins’ lawyers tried to say that MSNOW was dishonest in saying that FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson “broadly” denied...
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