The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel has forcefully condemned a New York Times report that claimed she held another man’s hand following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
Shawn McCreesh, a White House correspondent for the Times, shared his account of the “commotion” that erupted at the Washington Hilton last Saturday night on his outlet’s live blog.
In the original version of his post, he wrote that Patel “came tearing across the hallway with two men in tow,” while the FBI director’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, “was hiding in a room with another man who was holding her hand.”
Speaking to the Daily Mail in an interview published Wednesday, Wilkins deemed McCreesh’s reporting “salacious,” and blasted The New York Times for their “weird refusal to fully admit they were wrong.”
“I was only ever holding Kash’s hand; anything to suggest otherwise is false,” she told the outlet. “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.”
