Megyn Kelly's eyebrow-raising feedback about convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein didn’t go unnoticed by The Daily Show.

On a latest version of The Megyn Kelly Present, the conservative political commentator referenced somebody who's "very, very near this case" who believes Epstein "was not a pedophile," as a result of "he was into the hardly authorized kind," specifically 15-year-old women.

"There's a distinction between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you already know?," the previous Fox Information host argued. "It's simply no matter. It's sick."

The Every day Present host Josh Johnson was not keen to shrug off Kelly's feedback on Thursday's episode of the satirical information present. He argued that conservatives want somebody like her, a "grasp of spin," to defend President Donald Trump, after he was referenced by title a number of occasions in newly launched Epstein emails.

"Present us what you bought," he mentioned of Kelly, earlier than enjoying a clip of her pedophile feedback.

"How the hell was Megyn Kelly ever an lawyer?" Johnson requested, earlier than doing an impression. "Your Honor, my consumer solely engaged in food plan pedophilia."

"Ma'am, everybody is aware of there’s a large distinction between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old," Johnson mentioned. "However everybody additionally is aware of there’s by no means an excellent motive to be speaking about that distinction."

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Leisure Weekly has reached out to Kelly for remark.

Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida in 2008, was charged with intercourse trafficking minors and conspiracy to intercourse visitors minors in New York in 2019. He died by obvious suicide in his jail cell forward of his trial.

A group of emails to and from Epstein was launched by the Home Oversight Committee on Wednesday, renewing curiosity within the relationship between the late intercourse offender and the present president.

Within the paperwork, Epstein appeared important of Trump. In a single e-mail to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein claimed of Trump, "In fact he knew concerning the women," and in one other to confidant Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011, he wrote that Trump "spent hours” at Epstein’s home with a intercourse trafficking sufferer.

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Not one of the paperwork confirmed Epstein straight accusing Trump of any crime. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and has by no means been charged with legal exercise in relation to Epstein.

"These emails show completely completely nothing aside from the truth that President Trump did nothing mistaken," white Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters on Wednesday.

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