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Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Confronts WHCD Hand-Holding Claims
April 29, 2026
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Hugh Dougherty/The Daily BeastFBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend has come to his rescue amid claims she was left grasping another man’s hand during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. “I was only ever holding Kash’s hand; anything to suggest otherwise is false,” Patel’s 27-year-old girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, told the Daily Mail on Wednesday, lashing out at the “sick” New York Times for its reporting.
Forty-four minutes after shots first rang out at the Washington Hilton, the newspaper’s White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh posted an account of the immediate aftermath of the shooting on the Times’ live blog, writing, “Pandemonium reigned as top cabinet officials were evacuated.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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