Kash Patel’s girlfriend lashes out at ‘sick’ report suggesting she was holding another person’s hand after shots rang out at correspondents’ dinner
FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend has lashed out at a report suggesting she held another man’s hand after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. The New York Times published, but later edited, a report suggesting musician Alexis Wilkins was spotted holding hands with someone who wasn’t Patel inside a private holding room after shots rang out at the event, according to the Daily Mail. “I was only ever holding Kash’s hand; anything to suggest otherwise is false. It is sick for the New York Times to have used this time after a perceived active shooting as a political tool. They will stop at nothing to push a narrative out that’s damaging to people they’ve determined they dislike,” Wilkins told the Daily Mail. When reached for comment, a NYT spokesperson told The Independent: “A Times journalist on the scene of the Correspondents’ Dinner accurately reported during the breaking news events of the evening, including Ms. Wilkins’ sheltering in a room while holding a security officer’s hand.” “This reporting was published in a live …