FBI chief Kash Patel's partner, Alexis Wilkins, filed a $5-million defamation lawsuit against podcaster Elijah Schaffer, accusing him of spreading lies that she was an Israeli spy. Court filing said he suggested that Alexis is an "agent of a foreign government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the FBI Director". Schaffer retweeted a post claiming that Wilkins was a "honeypot" agent.