Ex-FBI Agent Says He Was Joking When He Called FBI Director’s Girlfriend a Former ‘Mossad Agent’
'Mr. Seraphin’s statements clearly constituted imaginative expression, satire, humor, and rhetorical hyperbole…'
In August, former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin accused FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, of being an Israeli intelligence asset who’s acting as a “honeypot”—a tactic where someone sexually manipulates their target to compromise, manipulate or spy on them.
“[Patel] has had his own little ‘honeypot’ issue that’s been going on of late, so we’re just going to acknowledge it real publicly. He’s got a girlfriend that is half his age, who is apparently is both a country music singer, a political commentator on Rumble, a friend of John Rich through [Dan] Bongino, who also now owns a big chunk of Rumble, and she’s also a former Mossad agent in what is like the equivalent of their NSA,” Seraphin said on his online show.
Seraphin’s accusations prompted a lawsuit from Wilkins, a 26-year-old American country music singer and conservative commentator.
Now, Seraphin says he was joking when he made those comments, according to a motion to dismiss that he filed Tuesday in Texas federal court.
“Mr. Seraphin’s statements clearly constituted imaginative expression, satire, humor, and rhetorical hyperbole. Ms. Wilkins’ own Complaint admits this, calling the statements ‘ridiculous’ and ‘ludicrous,’” Seraphin’s lawyers said in the motion.
“The statements intended to convey that there may be an ulterior motive for Ms. Wilkins’ relationship with Director Patel through purposefully over-the-top representations that a reasonable listener would not believe were assertions of fact.”
In his motion, Seraphin also noted that other commentators have made similar accusations against Wilkins. Former Utah candidate for U.S. Senate Sam Parker, for instance, posted about the allegations on Twitter/X in February, receiving more than 2.5 views. Another Twitter/X account ran by Simon Goddek called Wilkins a “classic honey pot” in July in a post that had more than 1 million views.
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