Bulwark Takes - MAGA Media Turns on Kash Patel—And His Girlfriend

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on Kash Patel’s government jet scandal, the MAGA pile-on targeting his girlfriend, the absurd “Mossad honeypot” conspiracy, and the escalating lawsuits shaking up the right. Read more in Will Sommer's latest False Flag newsletter: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-girlfriend-alexis-wilkins-driving-maga-nuts

All right, hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing out of the Bullock. I am back again at my hotel Wi-Fi situation, and it's holding up okay. It's holding up okay, enough to do these YouTubes. And since Will Summer, our fearless false flag newsletter writer has another dandy newsletter. I figured I'd jump on to talk to him about it. Will, thanks for joining me, man. Are you, like, obsessed with Cashber telling his girlfriend?

You just keep writing about the situation. I'm a little worried about you. I can't help it. They keep getting in the news. you know, it's pretty unusual for an FBI director and his girlfriend to be kind of like, you know, to be causing such a ruckus. I don't think there's like literally any example of it. But, you know, here we are. You missed the Robert Mueller scandals of the 90s when he was just gallivanting around town with his country singing girlfriend, too. Noted Playboy.

Yeah. So I just want to set the stage before I get to the topic of those newsletter. For a couple weeks now, we've been covering Cashpertels. penchant for using the FBI jet to go see his girlfriend who is based in Nashville and is a country music performer. Patel went to see her in Penn State and then went to Nashville and then we uncovered that he'd gone to Nashville repeatedly. His people say, responded to you in classic Trump administration fashion, which was extremely common reserved slash telling you is the most pathetic story they ever saw. And then the Times reported that in fact there was, or sorry, the journal

reporter. There's, in fact, way more travels, including to some like ranch called the boondoggle ranch, which is too on point. The boondoggle ranch. It's like, come on, this is not real. But it's real, although they took down their website after the, anyways, he's done a lot of travel. So in the backdrop, though, another saga has been brewing involving the girlfriend and MAGA personalities now who are going after her. And can you now pick up where your newsletter starts? Yeah. So Alexis Wilkins, she's a country music singer. you know, Cash has said she's a country music sensation. I don't know if we're at that level yet.

But she's much younger than him. She's 19 years younger. And, you know, I think when people initially see them, a lot of people on the right have said they aren't looks matched. Now, that means they think she's a lot hotter than he is. I'm going to leave it. They say powers the ultimate aphrodisiac on the other hand. I don't know. I'll leave it.

But with that said, ever since Cash was sworn in, obviously their relationship, they've been together, I think, for three years. There has been a lot of attention, increasing attention on her. She's also kind of a conservative pundit. She does stuff with TPSA. But especially after Cash started saying, Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, there's no conspiracy theory here. And in particular, after the FBI and the DOJ decided to close the Epstein investigation, a lot of people on the right have been saying, wait a minute, is this lovely young lady on Cash's arm? Is she a Mossad, Israeli agent out to cover up Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence. And so this has been this this totally baseless conspiracy theory about her that's developed. Yeah, okay. So I think I can be

honest about it. She's much more attractive than he is. And yes, maybe Will, you are right that powers and Ephrodisiac. But I don't see people that way. Thank you. Did they meet before he was FBI director? They did, right? Yeah. In her telling, I believe they met at a party in Nashville. I I think sort of a conservative personality, meat and greed. I mean, you know, Nationals are real. That's where it all goes down these days. That's where the Daily Wire is, where Candace Owens is. That's the place to see.

That's the hub. That's the future MAGA spouse. So the idea is that Cash is like entrapped here. But what is the evidence that Wilkins has any, whatever, any ties whatsoever to Massad, which is what a lot of people on the MAGA writer now insiniscuit. her outright alleging. There's really no evidence. I mean, besides the fact that they think she's too hot for him.

You know, she's, number one, she's not Jewish. She's not Jewish. She's not Israeli. And basically that she once worked for Prager You, the sort of conservative content mill, and the CEO of Prager You used to be in Israeli intelligence. But, you know, that's really, yeah. You know, it's sort of a third-degree connection, yeah. Okay, that seems kind of thin.

And yet, people are out there saying, look, She's entrapped Cash Patel. She's hot. He fell for it. She's actually a misod agent. She's manipulating him, which is anti-Semitic, I'll just say. And now she's responding with lawsuits. I didn't realize what's happening.

But how many lawsuits are we talking about? So so far, I think she's filed three that have become public. There may be more that I just can't find. But basically, she filed one against former FBI agent, Kyle Serafin, who's sort of Cash's nemesis. And more recently, she sued conspiracy theorist guy named Sam Parker. And most importantly, for our purposes, she's just. sued this kind of far right commentator named Elijah Schaefer, all of whom had some directly

and some more obliquely sort of suggested that she's a honeypot spy. Why is Elijah Schaefer more important than the other two? Well, he's sort of a bigger deal on the right. He's worked at places like the Blaze and Gateway Pundit. He was at January 6th. And so he's kind of just been kicking around for a while. There's a point where he says, you know, she's coming after me because she can't go after Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes. So she just went one tier below. I don't know if I, I'd say, let's say she went four or five tiers below. It's a big tier, big tear. But he's like, he's a well-networked guy.

He's like, I would say, reviled by a lot of his sort of political compatriots. He's, you know, he was fired from the blaze for allegedly assaulting one of his coworkers. But so he's not exactly like a hero. But on the other hand, her lawsuit against him, which was filed in late October and sort of emerged this week, basically there was an article about real Israeli Honeypot spies, and he posted a picture of her in cash and quote tweeted it. And so sort of saying, like, Tee, you know, I know of a honeypot. But he didn't quite say that. And so she's suing him based entirely on that. And then saying, you know, this guy doesn't like Israel. He's anti-Semitic. So clearly this is sort of, he's saying I'm a spot. Got you. And she's suing that I'm assuming

for defamation. Yeah, she's suing him for $5 million in defamation, which seems pretty steep. Shee. Five mill. And, geez, Louise. A cool 5-mill. And so as a result, this is he's really gone on the offensive. He's not taking this quietly. He's done, you know, he's set up the crowdfunding campaign and all this stuff. And a lot of people on the right, you know, the political spectrum. On one hand, we've got the proud boys leader, Enrique Tario, and he's saying, I don't like this.

On the other, we have Hercules actor, Kevin Sorbo, who's kind of just a mainstream mega guy. And he's saying, you know, should the FBI director's girlfriend, maybe in kind of a proxy fight here, should he be punishing people for criticizing Israel. I don't know if I, if I like this. That's the thing. As you said, it was a proxy fight. And this is, I think, where it jumps from, like, a very lurid and fun and, you know, you know, Real Housewives drama to, like, something actually serious and newsy, which is there's some breadcrumbs, like, that cash is the one who's, like, helping her with these suits and maybe sort of egging her on to do these things. Is that, and what are they? I'll let you explain. Yeah, I mean, for one, she doesn't have a history of, like,

filing a lot of lawsuits before all this. Fine, but you start, fine, but you start at some point. So let's put that aside. Let's just say there are other things. So her lawyer is this guy who has also represented cash in defamation cases. He's also the head of the cash nonprofit foundation. And so basically he's like cash's go-to lawyer. And the other thing I would say is that these former FBI agents who were fired, they are suing the FBI.

And one of them alleges in his lawsuit that basically this. right wing media figure was going after cash for and basically cash said to him, you know, you should sue this guy who's criticizing us and I'll set you up with a lawyer and we can make it happen, get a defamation case going. So that's sort of what a lot of people are suspecting happened here. Is that cash basically is like, you should sue these guys calling you a honeypot and here's my lawyer and let me like, you know, get you situated. And that's where I think this story really jumps into something that is serious. There's enough evidence now that Cash Patel has competing interests going on in his day-to-day life.

He seems to be preoccupied with vendettas and social media. That's one. He has a pension for traveling on the company dime, although he used to pay some of the wages of it, or some of the cost of it, but he seems to be taking the jet a bunch of places like Nashville and Vegas. And then on top of that, he seems like kind of like overwhelmed by these personal vendettas where he's, you know, wants to sue folks that he doesn't like.

And all I'm going to say is, like, it would be nicer if we had an FBI director who was kind of more focused singularly on the job. And is that a criticism that he's facing at all? I'm sure. And there's people on the right who are like, hey, like, this is a serious gig. You should probably focus on it. Yeah, I mean, look, you know, we also have to keep in mind. I mean, people on the right basically want to see the FBI destroyed or sort of rooted out

the deep state influence. And they're saying, you know, Elijah Schaefer, for example, says, look, man, and look, look, I mean, these guys are all very sexist in this right way media world. But he says, look, if you can't keep, you know, keep control of your 19 years younger girlfriend, how are you going to go after these 30-year veterans of the FBI who are arresting Trump supporters and kicking our doors in? And so there has been this sense that the cash is kind of distracted. I mean, this is the FBI director. These guys are supposed to be like kind of receding into the background until it's time to, you know,

throw the cuffs on and do the press conference. But instead, I mean, this, I was thinking, you know, it's kind of the most colorful FBI director. personal life since J. Edgar Hoover. Yeah. It's like if J. Edgar Hoover lived in, like, the age of Twitter and was like, you know, pursuing the legal vendettas of his various love interests, it's just a, it's like a step above it. It's very bizarre stuff. And again, I think I prefer to live in a reality where the FBI director was more focused on the work at hand. There's a lot of stuff going on at there. I think there's also an interesting legal issue here that, you know, I expect someone like

Elijah Schaefer is going to argue basically that Casper tell is trying to punish him for first Amendment speech. And then we have to look into, you know, how much is Cash Patel involved in this lawsuit? What's the discovery going to look like? You know, is Cash using any government resources or government time or government jets to set these lawsuits up if he is? And, you know, what does that look like? I mean, I think potentially this could get pretty ugly for him. And at some point, you know, look, I think Cash Patel is clearly extremely loyal to Trump. And I think for Trump, that is the paramount value that these people can hold for him. On the other hand, if you start this drumbeat in right wing media that like everyone hates cash and then they start

saying gosh cash isn't getting red at the deep state cash is messing up left and right at some point you have to wonder maybe that is going to filter back to the white house 100% um i'm a little bit worried about you i got to be honest um i think you know the more you report on this storyline the more you're going to be on cash's radar and um i'm tempted to start a preemptive legal defense fund for you just in fly i we'll throw it up on gives and go where these guys all do their legal defenses where Elijah is doing his. I'm actually already on the run already. This is just a backdrop. So I'm in the wind. I wouldn't worry about me. Folks, if you heard it here first, Will is on the run, probably somewhere in Canada at this point. He's still going to be

writing newsletters for us. So subscribe to them and subscribe to this feed. We get great conversations and content like this. Will, buddy, thank you so much. I'll miss you here in the States. Thank you. I'm watching that jet like a hawk, though. I'm looking where it's going. All right. Take care.