Data Analysis Points to Foreign-Linked Influence Campaign to Deepen GOP Divisions
FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, says her analysis of 3.1 million retweets points to a 22-month foreign-linked influence campaign to deepen GOP divisions
A 22-month coordinated influence operation appears to have repeatedly targeted fracture points within the Republican Party and the Trump administration, according to a data analysis published by Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel. The analysis documents 3.1 million retweet engagements across six major incidents and identifies patterns suggesting coordinated amplification, foreign media involvement, and recurring links to organizations associated with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Wilkins, who became a target herself in July 2025 when she was falsely claimed to be an Israeli intelligence operative, conducted the analysis using the official X API. Her findings show the same network of accounts activating at key Republican crisis points, from messaging in May 2024 before the Butler assassination attempt to the March 2026 resignation of National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent over the Iran war.
The timeline also points to recurring overlap among conservative media personalities and organizations identified in Wilkins’ dataset. Catholics for Catholics, which lists Flynn as a “Current Senior Advisor” on its website, hosted Kent at its Washington gala on March 19, two days after his resignation. Within 72 hours, Kent appeared onstage with Flynn and conservative commentator Candace Owens at the Waldorf Astoria.
The State Department has designated Russian state media outlet RT as “part of Russia’s intelligence apparatus” engaged in “covert influence activities” globally. Wilkins’ analysis places RT among the top 15 amplifiers across the 22-month dataset. When RT posted about Wilkins by name in July 2025, falsely alleging that she was a Mossad honeypot, the claim was amplified by the official Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by an Iranian journalist based in Tehran.
Coordinated Timing and Amplification Patterns
The analysis identifies engagement patterns that differ from organic content spread. In the July 2025 campaign targeting Wilkins, 659 accounts retweeted the same post, with some retweets occurring just one second apart and 15 account pairs retweeting within 10 seconds of one another. At peak activity, the network produced 54 retweets in a single hour, contributing to 863,568 total retweet engagements in that chapter alone.
The operation’s earliest documented activation came in May 2024, 10 days before the Butler assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Ivan Raiklin, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who serves on the board of Flynn’s nonprofit, America’s Future, posted directly to Elon Musk and JD Vance suggesting that Gen. Flynn would make Trump “assassination-proof.” That post received 166 retweets across 14 tightly clustered bursts, with some amplification occurring just one second apart.
The Kirk Assassination and Fracture Amplification
According to Wilkins, the network’s most sustained activation followed the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. Within hours of his death, Candace Owens publicly blamed Israel for the killing and targeted Kirk’s widow, Erika, by name.
Many of the same accounts identified in previous chapters became active again immediately after Kirk’s assassination, Wilkins’ analysis found. What might have been a moment of Republican unity instead became one of the most divisive episodes of 2025. Owens later produced a multi-part video series titled The Bride of Charlie, accusing Erika Kirk of potential involvement in her husband’s death and claiming that pressure from the Israeli lobby played a role in the assassination.
Throughout March 2026, as the Iran war divided Republicans, RT published commentary from Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin — frequently described as “Putin’s brain” — declaring MAGA “more than dead, worse than dead, it’s now an undead, a ghoul.” The messaging aligned with domestic divisions surrounding Kent’s resignation.
Kent Resignation and Anti-Enlistment Messaging
Kent, a former Green Beret who lost two congressional races as a Trump-aligned candidate, resigned as NCTC director on March 17, 2026, citing his opposition to the Iran war. In his resignation letter, Kent claimed that Iran “posed no imminent threat” to the United States and alleged that Israeli officials and lobbyists had “deployed a misinformation campaign” to deceive President Trump into war.
“We started this war due to pressure from Israel,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter to Trump. Some Republican lawmakers accused Kent of espousing anti-Semitic views. Trump responded that Kent “was weak on security” and said he was glad the counterterrorism director had stepped down.
During this period, accounts in the network posted messages stating, “Refuse to enlist in or remain fighting for the U.S. military.” Owens also wrote publicly, “May American troops take his lead,” referring to Kent’s resignation during active U.S. military operations in Iran.
Foreign Amplification and Russian Media Integration
The two-way flow between domestic accounts and Russian state media forms a recurring pattern across the six chapters. When RT content about Wilkins appeared, it was allegedly amplified by accounts that had participated in previous chapters. When domestic influencers posted divisive content, RT and other Russian outlets amplified it internationally.
A September 2024 State Department assessment found that RT had embedded cyber capabilities, conducted military procurement for Russian forces in Ukraine, and operated proxy outlets globally while concealing RT’s involvement. The assessment also found that RT employees were “leveraging intelligence tactics, front companies, and network technologies to obfuscate their role in these covert efforts.”
Methodology and Persistence
Wilkins’ analysis tracked accounts across all six documented chapters: messaging before the Butler assassination attempt in May 2024, the July 2025 “Mossad honeypot” campaign targeting Wilkins herself, the response to Kirk’s assassination in September 2025, and three additional undisclosed chapters culminating in Kent’s March 2026 resignation. Wilkins said the dataset shows that 80% of all activity consisted of pure amplification rather than original content or conversation.
“The goal of this operation is not to win a political argument, but to make the fractures feel permanent,” Wilkins wrote in her analysis thread. “To make Republicans believe their movement is over. To make soldiers feel the war isn’t worth fighting.”
Wilkins said the complete dataset will be released in full.
Let me ask, why is Patel's girlfriend doing anything the FBI should be doing?