Kash Patel's lover takes MS NOW to court over accusations of 'hogwash' reporting

FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend and country singer Alexis Wilkins has filed a lawsuit against MS NOW, claiming that the outlet's reporting about her use of FBI agents is hogwash, according to reports on Monday.Wilkins had filed the defamation lawsuit on Friday, citing that MS NOW had knowingly and recklessly published lies about her, The New Republic reported. The lawsuit involved a December story that included anonymous sources claiming that Patel told FBI agents to take Wilkins's drunk friend home after a night of partying in Nashville. “This was hogwash and they knew it,” Wilkins's attorneys wrote in the 16-page suit, which also claimed that the security detail had not yet been created for the FBI director's significant other, who is 27 and does not drink. She does concretely have one now—the first time in U.S. history the bureau’s director has extended such protection, The New Republic reported.However, the story never reported that Wilkins was inebriated, yet the singer's legal team has appeared to be confused over the details of her claims. In their filing, her team contradicted themselves, later writing that Wilkins 'very rarely drinks,' according to The New Republic.As a country singer, author, and political advocate, known for her Christian, patriotic, America-First, and pro-law enforcement values, her brand and ability to work in her profession would be significantly damaged if her employers, her publishers, her listeners, or her readers, believed that she was abusing the public trust and using her relationship with Director Patel to misappropriate FBI resources, according to the suit.The suit has accused MS NOW of writing a story in George Costanza fashion in order to self-promotingly advance their own agenda and notoriety at the expense of Wilkins.Rebecca Kutler, MS NOW president, shared a statement with Raw Story regarding the lawsuit.We stand firmly behind MS NOW’s reporting. As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on ongoing legal matters, Kutler said.Patel has been accused of excessive drinking in a report from The Atlantic and faced grilling from lawmakers over the allegations, which he has denied.