One day after sparking outrage with her viral comments about Jeffrey Epstein, Megyn Kelly returned to the air to argue that she is the one who really cares about the late convicted pedophile’s victims.
On Wednesday, after the House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 emails sent to and from Epstein, Kelly immediately drew flack for appearing to equivocate on Epstein’s behalf: “He was into the barely-legal type,” Kelly said on her show. “Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. And I realize this is disgusting. I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts, that he wasn’t into, like, eight-year-olds.”
On the Thursday edition of The Megyn Kelly Show, which airs on SiriusXM and YouTube, she again addressed the Epstein email release, criticizing the media’s reaction to it. “This effort to turn the Epstein story into the [Donald] Trump story completely undermines the actual search for truth when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein,” she said. “Which is why many of us resent these Johnny-come-latelies finally getting interested in the story.”
To Kelly, the emails only prove that Trump had no knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. “Now, every media outlet known to man is reporting on every word Epstein penned related to Donald Trump in a mad search to tie the president to the disgraced financiers’s sexual crimes. So far, it hasn’t worked,” she said. “But this is a pathetic and blatant piece of proof that these people don’t care at all about sex trafficking victims. The media cares about one thing and one thing only: getting Donald Trump.”
Citing her apparently deep familiarity with the case was a surprising tack, considering she got into hot water in the first place for boasting about her supposed internal knowledge of Epstein’s operation. On Wednesday, she told her audience that “somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything” said they had thought Epstein “liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.” Liberals immediately seized on her remarks, including comedian Patton Oswalt—who got suspended from BlueSky for quoting Kelly beneath this succinct assessment: “Wood chipper, feet first.”
During the Wednesday segment, in conversation with NewsNation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon, Kelly made a point of saying she did not support this behavior: “It’s sick,” she said. Still, Kelly seemed intent on defining Epstein as a sex offender who did not target really young children. “I don’t know what’s true about [Epstien], but we have yet to see anybody come forward and say, I was under 10, I was under 14, when I first came within his purview,” Kelly said Wednesday. “You can say that’s a distinction without a difference. I think there is a difference. There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a five-year-old, you know?”
