Simon Goddek on Free Speech

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Statement history

1 statement on this page. Dates: July 7, 2025

1 matching statement. Dates: July 7, 2025

2 published statements. Dates: July 7, 2025 to November 11, 2025

Simon Goddek
Role at the time: Biotechnologist and social media commentator, on his X account
July 7, 2025Condemned
Response to this claim
Kyle Seraphin said on his podcast on August 22, 2025 that FBI Director Kash Patel "has had his own little 'honeypot' issue" and that Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, is "a former Mossad agent in what is like the equivalent of their NSA," according to the transcript quoted in Wilkins's complaint and in the court's order denying his motion to dismiss.
“Alexis Wilkins is twenty years younger than Kash and works for an NGO that’s basically Israeli intelligence. … Classic honey pot.”
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Simon Goddek on X, July 7, 2025: reply calling Wilkins a "Classic honey pot" · Simon GoddekSingle reply, 12:22 PM EDT

Goddek's reply in the conversation under his earlier post about Patel that day. The account has since changed its handle from @goddeketal to @goddek; news reports from July 2025 cite the post under the old handle.

Why we used this label

The reference point is the proposition that Alexis Wilkins is, or was, a foreign intelligence agent, specifically an Israeli or Mossad "honeypot" in a relationship with Kash Patel to compromise him. Goddek states that Wilkins works for an organization that is "basically Israeli intelligence" and ends with the label "Classic honey pot," which asserts the proposition, so we used Condemned. Here that label records only an attributed assertion and no judgment on Goddek or Wilkins. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, because part of the reply is a rhetorical question about why she would date Patel. It loses because the reply closes with a flat label rather than a question. Evidence level: his own post on X.

Read statement Is Alexis Wilkins a foreign 'honeypot' agent, as Kyle Seraphin and other commentators suggested?