FBI director Kash Patel's girlfriend Alexis Wilkins has been pressured to fend off the “extremely disheartening” conspiracy theories that she is honeypotting the bureau's head honcho for a overseas authorities.
The 26-year-old nation artist mentioned the skeptics are contorting her backstory, whilst she acknowledged she will be able to “perceive” it.
“I believe folks see sure items and I get it,” Wilkins informed the “Megyn Kelly Present” on Wednesday.
“They need to join issues, they need to justify, among the ache that they've been by watching the final 4 years, and there's items of this that, you understand, I can perceive,” she continued.
“I believe that they've taken simply these items of proof that you just laid out and tie them collectively in the entire fallacious methods.”
Conspiracy theories about Wilkins exploded on the web after the Justice Division and FBI's July 6 memo about convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, which concluded that the proof suggests Epstein killed himself in jail and didn't hold an “incriminating shopper listing.”
Among the trolls speculated that the Arkansas-raised singer was a Mossad agent supposed to compromise Patel, 45, and at the very 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 coach the general public on key political points.
The CEO of PragerU, Marissa Streit, beforehand served within the Israeli military.
Wilkins is Armenian and Christian and doesn't seem to have any identified ties to Israel.
When Kelly requested point-blank whether or not she was a spy for any overseas authorities, Wilkins replied, “Positively not, that could be a agency no on that entrance.”
Earlier this month, the nation singer ripped into the net conspiracy theorists, raging that they're “farming” for consideration “as a result of their engagement dried up after Trump's win.”
“It's disappointing to see folks with no actual contribution to political discourse spin ridiculous conspiracy theories out of skinny air,” Wilkins bemoaned in an X submit. “These accusations are clearly insanely ridiculous.”
Patel and Wilkins met at a pal's occasion in Nashville in 2022 and started relationship a number of months later in early 2023.
“We simply occurred to fulfill,” Wilkins recounted, noting that the 19-year age hole she has with him at all times felt irrelevant.
“I've at all times appreciated [him], once I met him, I simply appreciated that he was so, so trustworthy,” Wilkins gushed. “He's precisely who he's on a regular basis. His character is unbelievable. His values are unbelievable.
“We each are very patriotic. So clearly there are issues there that we positively agree on, however he's simply essentially the most trustworthy, you understand, most integrity I've actually skilled in an individual, he's implausible.”
The nation singer, who hosts a Rumble present, acknowledged there's “not sufficient data on the market about me to glean an actual conclusion on all of this sort of vigilante analysis.”
She mused that these gaps have given room for web trolls to fill with conspiracy theories, which she lamented as “extremely disheartening.”
Patel has been “very annoyed” and “sad” with the hate and suspicion directed her method over the Epstein drama, Wilkins mentioned.
She additionally underscored that Patel's work on the Epstein drama is “restricted to the federal government aspect” and that she has “no consciousness in addition to what everybody else is seeing.”
“If folks cease calling me a spy, completely,” she replied when requested if she needs to see extra Epstein information launched.
