Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Alexis Wilkins Warns of ‘Foreign Influence Network’ Sowing a MAGA Divide

The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel is accusing a group of prominent provocateurs and ex-government officials, including podcaster Candace Owens and a retired general, Michael Flynn, of being part of a “foreign-linked influence network” designed to sabotage the Republican Party’s chances in the upcoming midterm elections.Those claims, made by country singer Alexis Wilkins in a 13-part thread on her X account Tuesday evening, singled out General Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, as allegedly running “coordinated operations” against the Trump Administration for 22 months to subvert “President Trump’s agenda” and to sow chaos in the Republican Party. “I know it’s real because they ran one against me. I was targeted in something I knew was far from organic,” Ms. Wilkins, 27, said on X.She based her findings on publicly available data that was parsed from a tool she designed after spending “the last few months learning to build programs,” including access to “the official X API.” Ms. Wilkins pointed to the number of retweets given to several offending posts as evidence of an “operation.”The FBI director, Kash Patel, and his girlfriend, the singer Alexis Wilkins. XFor instance, in May 2024, ten days before an assassination attempt against Mr. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Ms. Wilkins singled out a social media post by former Green Beret and self-titled “Secretary of Retribution” for Mr. Trump, Ivan Raiklin, in which he said, “Gen Flynn would make Trump assassination-proof.” Ms. Wilkins said Mr. Raiklin’s post, which was directed at X owner Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance, then received 166 retweets in “14 tightly clustered time windows, amplified within ONE SECOND.”On Saturday, Mr. Raiklin was among a group of men who confronted FBI Co-Deputy Director Dan Bongino over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation as he was leaving an event. One of the men — who Mr. Raiklin said was “a former cop” and not him — called Mr. Bongino “a pedophile protector.” After a brief argument, Mr. Bongino left the event.“I’m guessing Bongino asked Kash to direct her to lead the effort to go after me in response to ‘Bongino crash-out’ last weekend,” Mr. Raiklin tells the Sun.Alexis Wilkins performs at Timmy Brown & Friends LIVE at 3rd & Lindsley on May 25, 2021 at Nashville, Tennessee. Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesA person close to Ms. Wilkins tells the Sun that she had done the research “all by herself” and without help from Mr. Patel, who controls the country’s largest investigative operation. “He stays out of whatever she wants to do,” the person adds. Ms. Wilkins herself has been the object of accusations regarding the dark arts. In August, she filed separate lawsuits against several podcasters for accusing her of being an “Israeli honeypot” who was dating Mr. Patel to gain access to the Trump Administration. Among those sued was a former FBI agent and media provocateur, Kyle Seraphin, who accused Ms. Wilkins of being “a former Mossad agent” on his eponymous podcast, “The Kyle Seraphin Show.” “In July 2025, I was falsely labeled a Mossad spy in a coordinated campaign designed to isolate an official of the US Government by using the person publicly nearest to him — me,“ Ms. Wilkins said. The former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent. AP/Jenny KaneAfter RT, the Russian state-owned news network, posted about Ms. Wilkins, the story was then amplified by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Tehran-based Iranian journalist. Ms. Wilkins sued Mr. Seraphin for $5 million in damages. That case is still pending. On Wednesday, Mr. Seraphin questioned the timing of her accusations and the methods she had used to prove them.“I just find it interesting that she is a geopolitical expert who can now exploit developer API data to sniff out the Russian / Catholic foreign influence campaign against her while the FBI was apparently unaware,” Mr. Seraphin tells the Sun. In another post, Ms. Wilkins pointed to Ms. Owens’s response to the September 10 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, in which the podcaster blamed Israel and Mr. Kirk’s widow for the killing. Ms. Wilkins claimed that the same accounts in the “July 2025 honeypot chapter” immediately amplified Ms. Owens’s response.In a post on social media on Tuesday, Ms. Owens called Ms. Wilkins’ accusations “objectively hilarious.”The ‘Suspendable’ Kyle Seraphin is on his radio show. The Kyle Seraphin ShowIn the same thread, Ms. Wilkins pointed to former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent’s March 17 resignation — which he had submitted in protest of the Iran war — and Mr. Kent’s immediate booking by Catholics for Catholics for its gala at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C. General Flynn is a senior advisor for Catholics for Catholics and was a featured speaker at last week’s gala.“Within 72 hours: Kent is on stage with Flynn and Candace Owens at the Waldorf Astoria,” Ms. Wilkins said, alleging that many of the same social media accounts that were active just before the assassination attempt in Butler also amplified Mr. Kent’s resignation, media tour, and appearance at the Catholics for Catholics gala.Since resigning last week, Mr. Kent has appeared on several podcasts, including “The Megyn Kelly Show” and “The Tucker Carlson Show,” saying that although he was not suggesting there was “a smoking gun evidence” of foreign government involvement in Kirk’s murder in 2025, he maintained that his agency was denied the opportunity to “fully investigate for foreign links.”A law enforcement source said Mr. Kent was not “blocked” from investigating leads he would normally be able to pursue, as he alleged.Dan Bongino, then FBI deputy director, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Dec. 4, 2025. AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File“He was blocked from accessing files he had no role or statutory authority to access,” the law enforcement source tells the Sun.Ms. Wilkins’s relationship with Mr. Patel, whom she met in late 2022 at a mutual friend’s home in Nashville, has been a source of intense scrutiny. Mr. Patel publicly referred to Ms. Wilkins as “the woman I’m proud to call my partner in life” this past November.Throughout Mr. Patel’s tenure, the 45-year-old FBI director has faced repeated questions over his use of FBI resources, including his frequent — and mandated — use of a private government jet and reports that he assigned an FBI SWAT detail from the bureau’s Nashville field office to serve as his girlfriend’s security detail.Ms. Wilkins, who has her own public profile as a musician, has also been subjected to “hundreds of credible threats” in light of her relationship with Mr. Patel. Many of the messages, which the Sun has reviewed, were sexually graphic and violent in tone and intent.Alexis Wilkins arrives at Am I Racist? Movie Premiere at Regal Green Hills on September 09, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jason Davis/Getty Images for DailyWire+She did not respond to questions from the Sun on Wednesday. Ms. Wilkins concluded that the MAGA movement was suffering from an “infiltration problem,” not an “approval problem.”She added, “I believe in the Conservative movement, I voted for President Trump’s agenda, and I refuse to see it fractured for the benefit of our adversaries.”

Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Alexis Wilkins Warns of ‘Foreign Influence Network’ Sowing a MAGA Divide

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