Kash Patel is getting major backlash.

The 45-year-old FBI director has gotten criticism for assigning SWAT team members to act as security for his 27-year-old country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins .

MS NOW reports that there is a taxpayer-funded FBI security detail in place, made up of agents typically assigned to the FBI field office in Nashville, Tenn.

The assignment is now reportedly causing concern that it could delay those law enforcement officers from responding to other incidents and that the response team won’t be fully staffed, per the report.

Sources familiar with FBI security protocols said they “were unaware of any instance in which the girlfriends of top FBI officials received government-staffed security details.”

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray ’s wife

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