Outrage as Kash Patel orders elite FBI unit to taxi his girlfriend's drunk friend around Nashville
FBI Director Kash Patel is under fire for allegedly yelling at his girlfriend's security detail, demanding they drive home one of her drunk friends.
In an extraordinary privilege, Alexis Wilkins, the director's Nashville-based country music singer girlfriend, has her own security team consisting of elite local SWAT agents.
Multiple sources are now telling MS NOW that Wilkins ordered her agents to escort her inebriated friend home at least twice, with one occasion in the spring.
Not wanting to alter their protection plan for Wilkins, the agents pushed back.
In one instance, however, Patel called the security team leader and demanded that they listen to his girlfriend's orders, the sources revealed.
Wilkins angrily responded to the allegations on Friday, taking aim at intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian.
'Ken’s three sources: the voices in his head,' the 27-year-old wrote.
'Nice try, Ken. Let’s try something even remotely believable next time instead of some party girl trope that’s lame and verifiably false.'
A new report claims FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend used her security detail to drive home her drunk friends. Patel reportedly yelled at the detail to follow his girlfriend's demands. The FBI has pushed back on the story
Wilkins poses with law enforcement at a TPUSA event in Utah
Country singer Alexis Wilkins and her boyfriend, FBI Director Kash Patel, at a wrestling match in October 2025. The pair reportedly used the FBI director's jet to return to Nashville after the event
The FBI also denied the claims.
'This is made up and did not happen,' FBI spokesman Ben Williamson said.
In a follow-up statement on X, Williamson added: 'I went and checked with everyone involved - Alexis (who doesn’t even drink), the Director, the Detail, and more - all of whom said it didn’t happen.'
Wilkins has frequently travelled with Patel, 45, on the director's $60 million government jet - one he has to take because of his high-profile intelligence job.
That jet-setting has raised the eyebrows of critics who argue Wilkins should not be privy to the luxuries of her beau's government-mandated private travel.
And it's not the first time the FBI director has reportedly ripped into his girlfriend's security team.
At a National Rifle Association event in the spring, where Wilkins was set to sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' her security detail, another local SWAT team from the Atlanta area, left before the event had concluded, sources told the New York Times.
The lapse in protection infuriated Patel, who has been concerned about his girlfriend's protection amid threats against her online, the outlet reported.
Wilkins has lived in Nashville while expanding her musical career
An FBI spokesman pushed back on the reported security escorts for Wilkins' friends, claiming that the singer does not drink
The 45-year-old director fumed at the detail's commander, stressing his concerns about their failure to communicate their movements.
Still, for years, Patel criticized former FBI Director Christopher Wray for using the FBI's resources.
'Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G-5 jet to go to vacation,' he said on The Glenn Beck Program. 'Maybe we ground that plane - $15,000 every time it takes off.'
'Go take their money. Chris Wray doesn’t need a private jet,' Patel said in 2023 on Steve Bannon's show.
Patel has repeatedly defended himself and his girlfriend's travel and sought to deflect public attacks against her, including allegations about her allegiance to the US, which they have claimed are unsubstantiated.
Wilkins has opened several defamation lawsuits in recent months against her detractors online.
'The disgustingly baseless attacks against Alexis — a true patriot and the woman I’m proud to call my partner in life — are beyond pathetic,' Patel wrote on X last month while the lawsuits were in the news.
'She is a rock-solid conservative and a country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes. I’m so blessed she’s in my life.'
