Friday, June 5, 2026

MS Now Reporters Admitted They Had No Date, No Name, and No Proof Before Publishing a Story About Kash Patel’s Girlfriend

Deplorable Daily 

"Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent 25 years at the Washington Post before joining MS Now – the network that spent four straight years telling you Trump was a Russian asset, that the Steele Dossier was credible, that collusion was real."


"MSNBC spent years running anonymous source stories that turned out to be lies.

Now they rebranded as MS Now – and apparently brought the playbook with them.

A federal judge in Nashville is about to find out exactly what Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian actually knew before they published this one.

The Story Had No Security Detail and No Drunk Friend Because Neither Existed

The December 5, 2025, MS Now article was titled "Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources."

Three anonymous sources told Leonnig and Dilanian that Patel – on multiple occasions – ordered agents from his girlfriend's security detail to drive her intoxicated friend home after nights of partying in Nashville.

There was one problem with this story.

Alexis Wilkins didn't have a security detail at the time." . . 

None of it happened.

MS Now president Rebecca Kutler issued a statement saying she stands behind the reporting.

She stands behind a story whose reporters couldn't name a date, couldn't name a friend, and described a security detail that didn't exist yet." . . ".More...

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