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Eugene

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Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:11 AM Friday

ephebophilia: "What THE F**K Are We Doing Here?": People Cannot Believe This MAGA Pundit's Latest Remarks About Epstein [View all]

Source: Buzzfeed

"What THE F**K Are We Doing Here?": People Cannot Believe This MAGA Pundit's Latest Remarks About Epstein And The Age Of His Victims

Alana Valko
Thu, November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM EST
6 min read

Megyn Kelly, who once endorsed Trump by calling him a "protector of women," is now facing backlash for comments that appeared to downplay the sexual abuse committed by convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In an interview with conservative journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon on her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly discussed the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee this week before veering into a discussion on whether Epstein could be called "a pedophile" based on the ages of the girls he abused.

First, she cited someone she described as "very, very close to this case" and "in a position to know virtually everything," who told her that, in their view, "Jeffrey Epstein was not a pedophile."

"This is this person's view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls," she said.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/people-slamming-maga-commentator-she-011135448.html

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The Epstein scandal is following an all-to-familiar pattern. First "it didn't happen." Then, "it's overblown." And finally, "what are you going to to about it?"

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