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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe knew this was coming--15 yr olds are now 'barely legal':
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this caseâ¦Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophileâ¦He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girlsâ¦He wasn't into like 8 year oldsâ¦There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
— Republican Accountability (@accountablegop.bsky.social) 2025-11-13T17:00:06.176Z
I understand Megyn Kelly has a 14 yr old daughter.
SheltieLover
(75,189 posts)hamsterjill
(16,856 posts)I wanted to throw up when I heard her comments.
SheltieLover
(75,189 posts)hamsterjill
(16,856 posts)I think it's because it's coming from another woman. I can't stand it when women make excuses for men behaving badly. I am not a member of the "boys will be boys" club!!!
Hope you're having a great evening!
SheltieLover
(75,189 posts)Absolutely revolting!
JBTaurus83
(788 posts)AllyCat
(18,382 posts)Crowman2009
(3,360 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:21 PM - Edit history (3)
That whole respectable journalist BS was a total act. I knew that a long time ago when she tried that whole "there is nothing wrong with blackface" routine at NBC. Now that she's gathered enough cash she can now be the true vile person she's always been.
tinrobot
(11,884 posts)No. It's not OK.
"Barely legal" is still illegal. People go to jail for it.
durablend
(8,799 posts)Her own daughter is 14.
You okay with that Megyn?
mwmisses4289
(2,827 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:53 PM - Edit history (1)
as long as it's not her daughter
not fooled
(6,540 posts)A Democrat, OTOH, CHILD PREDATOR. Also much less likely.
Somebody call Childhood Protection Services on her before she rents out her own daughter.
calimary
(88,575 posts)WTF, Megyn???
Polybius
(21,201 posts)It's just that Kelly's definition is wrong, since 15 is not legal in any way. Barely legal is an 18 year old on a porn site.
AloeVera
(3,925 posts)But here it's vile beyond measure.
Dave Bowman
(6,296 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,194 posts)If I were a Republican in a sex scandal I wouldnt want a supporter telling one and all that I didnt have sex with an eight year old, I had sex with a 15 year old, but thats just me.
Disclosure, Im not a Republican ergo etcetera.
Torchlight
(6,152 posts)I just didn't think it would happen until the GOP were on their backs screaming for an assist as next year's mid-terms hit them in the belly. Or maybe they'll simply assert their shame is a badge of honor (more likely given their 'double-down and admit nothing!' policy they've adhered to this year).
Ocelot II
(128,386 posts)Sex with a fifteen-year-old is not only disgusting, it's illegal; it's considered rape because she isn't legally able to consent. "Barely legal" is illegal, just like barely dead is dead.
ColoringFool
(109 posts)"Barely" here does not mean "hasn't reached." THAT term would be "Nearly."
So "Barely Legal" means "Just right over the threshold of legality. Not cool, not ethical, but legal."
Fifteen years of age is not even close, though, to either term.
(Similarly, "Barely dead" doesn't mean "not dead." )
Ocelot II
(128,386 posts)trying to suggest that 15 is close enough so it's not really all that bad. But a 15-year-old is not legal and there's no such thing as nearly legal; the minimum age of consent in any state in the US is 16, no gray areas. In most states it's 18.
progressoid
(52,373 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,827 posts)the various other cultures around the world where child marriage is practiced. Even here in the US, only 16 states ban the act of child marriage.
So not real surprised by this.
And remember, the girl brought it on herself for...reasons.
TommyT139
(2,097 posts)...and rethugs are just fine with 13-year old girls having babies.
They are erasing childhood.
3catwoman3
(28,209 posts)Unchained At Last found that the ten states with the highest rate of child marriage per capita between 2000 and 2018 were:
Nevada (0.671%)
Idaho (0.338%)
Arkansas (0.295%)
Kentucky (0.262%)
Oklahoma (0.229%)
Wyoming (0.227%)
Utah (0.208%)
Alabama (0.195%)
West Virginia (0.193%)
Mississippi (0.182%)[23]
MustLoveBeagles
(13,890 posts)lame54
(38,980 posts)15 year old's now will have to sign up for the draft
USS_Dauntless
(129 posts)giving "massages" to disgusting, depraved old men.
Laffy Kat
(16,818 posts)Technically, it is ephedophilia, which is, indeed, attraction to young teens. But it is STILL illegal and immoral in our culture. Ephedophilia is not in the DSM because it is considered normal for men to lust after young teens and men fucking wrote the DSM. I refuse to say it's not "as bad" as pedophilia because it still traumatizes the child and it's WRONG. Even Kaitlyn Collins was calling his victims "underage women." They are trying to normalize it, IMO.
rurallib
(64,426 posts)mind games to justify child rape. Where do they stop?
videohead5
(2,811 posts)Has warped people's minds.
Vogon_Glory
(10,139 posts)and someone much older having relations with a kid that age.
There was an old smutty poem derived from the well-known Roses are red / Violets are blue
poem that ended with
Its not till theyre eighteen that theyre ready for [ BLEEP! NSFW!]. Sorry, but I DONT believe that adults should engage in sexual activities with minors.
Baitball Blogger
(51,502 posts)rubbersole
(10,910 posts)Time to spill the tea, Megyn.
EdmondDantes_
(1,181 posts)Both illegal, both creepy.
karynnj
(60,693 posts)Even though this no "barely" involved. It is completely illegal and sickening.
Wasn't that distinction between pre puberty and after something Dersowitz argued.
Greg_In_SF
(725 posts)refers to prepubescent children.
Polybius
(21,201 posts)You are 100% correct.
flvegan
(65,510 posts)He's not going to lose a single cultish follower. Not a single one.
The chud horde is unwavering in their support, regardless.
dweller
(27,610 posts)
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yes its
JI7
(92,992 posts)Bread and Circuses
(1,428 posts)And their wives are OK with it.
Got it !
Scrivener7
(57,897 posts)kimbutgar
(26,513 posts)Javaman
(64,949 posts)this is some truly fucked up cult justification for dear pedo leader
WestMichRad
(2,816 posts)Or it should!
ColoringFool
(109 posts)I know there are those who use the Greek terms to "distinguish" between those who assault toddlers and those who assault teens. The law does not.
UpInArms
(53,764 posts)Raping a 15 year old girl
Sorry, not sorry
Definitely illegal
BlueKota
(4,944 posts)these people are. It's disgusting they believe men should be able to molest girls under the age of legal consent. What if this had happened to them or their daughters? They aren't fit to be parents and minors should be removed from their custody for their own safety. They shouldn't even be allowed to be identify themselves as women.
ChicagoTeamster
(213 posts)DBoon
(24,532 posts)The argument is that it is easier to mold a younger person into the desired submissive obedience.
It is part of a pattern of denying women their personhood and make them into slaves.
NotHardly
(2,322 posts)Biophilic
(6,285 posts)maxrandb
(17,029 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:37 PM - Edit history (1)
It's why you see middle aged moms wearing "Tr××p can grab my pu××y anytime" T-shirts.
For a vast majority of Americans, their daughters are merely a commodity. If they can use their looks to hook a rich man, so be it, that's the way of the world. Hell, it might even be "God's will".
It's why you see a shit-ton of young, bleached, blonde, bubbly girls hanging around Donnie Dipshit.
It's transactional. You give me a handjob, I'll scratch your back.
Megan Kelly would gladly send her daughter to Epstein's Island for a sleepover, if it meant she might bag a billionaire, a spot on Faux News, or generate clicks on her monetized social media site.
I might get flamed for this, but I'm not wrong.
Why are they so anti DEI? It's because someone qualified might take a position that would have gone to a girl rated a 10 on Zuckerbergs Facebook origin site.
Sane people think the casting couch is a disgusting, dinosaur symbol of the "Old America". MAGAts see it as an opportunity that's been taken from them.
TNNurse
(7,468 posts)BUT IN THIS CONTEXT IT IS NOT APPLICABLE!
JPPaverage
(619 posts)Any of these perverted...characters touch her and they'll find out what pain really is.
SSJVegeta
(2,061 posts)QueerDuck
(682 posts)she's a real piece of work. Already moving goalposts and lowering the bar and the threshold. Disgusting!
PatrickforB
(15,307 posts)WmChris
(517 posts)For her it must translate to old enough to bleed old enough to butcher.
Wednesdays
(21,396 posts)There'd be lynch mobs among the MAGAts!
Buddyzbuddy
(1,929 posts)Remind me, did she put out for Roger to move up the ladder or did he assault her. I honestly don't recall all of the facts. Either way by talking about "somebody that she knows well but remains anonymous" giving hearsay statements that this person did not see Epstein as a pedophile is extremely irresponsible of Kelly. She's drawing a line of a 15 year old giving permission to be sexually used vs. an 8 year old by a mature adult. It's obvious she's trying to provide cover for the Felon by making it ok for him to have raped a child of 15, if that's what happened. Because that's what it is, the law says it and the citizens know it.
Megan Kelly is using her pulpit in a very evil manner which is even worse because of her experience with that pig from FOX. How would she like it if people started to wonder if she set Roger up just to get a big payday. After all, if she gave him permission then it was all ok.
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Kelly, you are such an insidious dirtbag.
Tribetime
(6,992 posts)relayerbob
(7,327 posts)she would have been ok with being forced into weird sex shit with 40+ year old without any way to stop them?
Botany
(75,930 posts)
So it is O.K. for a 61 year old man to pay a pimp like Epstein or Maxwell 500 $ to rape
a 15 year old girl. Maybe even more if she is a virgin and bleeds.
Megyn Kelly Eviscerated Over Epstein Remark: This Is Career Ending
Aviation Pro
(15,100 posts)What this shitbag is saying is equivalent to, Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed.
These fucking oxygen thieves.
Traildogbob
(12,226 posts)The WHITE Jesus. He is a racist pedi too.
Paladin
(32,063 posts)And to Megyn Kelly: keep up the good work, for Democrats.
Oneironaut
(6,160 posts)Theyre supposedly pro family values too, and, cant stop cheating on their wives. They believe image is the only thing thats important. They believe you can act however you want in private so long as no one finds out and everyone still thinks youre a god-fearing holy man.
Clouds Passing
(6,577 posts)Stockholm syndrome Kelly.
LetMyPeopleVote
(173,008 posts)First of all, a 15-year-old is not "barely legal." The age of consent in Florida is 18. So sexual behavior with a 15-year-old is rape.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-11-13T20:33:56.910Z
Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise.
And Megyn Kelly is confessing to having insider information about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to but stayed silent.
spanone
(140,737 posts)Prairie Gates
(6,885 posts)"...they were actually seducing us."
The pedophile order of excuses:
I definitely didn't do it.
I didn't know how old she was.
A fifteen year old is actually pretty mature.
Age of consent fluctuates throughout history. (Names some historical figure who married a 13 year old)
She was actually seducing me.
We've heard this story a million times. It's just fucking remarkable to watch it playing out as the talking points from right wing media!
durablend
(8,799 posts)AllaN01Bear
(28,090 posts)JHB
(37,870 posts)In terms of very strict definition, "pedophilia" refers to sexual attraction to pre-pubescents. But the colloquial meaning has expanded to include all minors, and the only people who try to make that distinction these days are trying to excuse creeps who prey on teenagers.
And that's exactly what Megyn's doing.
DeeDeeNY
(3,871 posts)But she has also fervently stated on TV that Santa Claus was white.
slightlv
(7,086 posts)Teenagers will give in to hormones as they will, but they *choose* their own age group with whom to do "it" with... not 50 and 60 year old men.
This is sickening, and if I were part of Child Services, I'd be checking up on her as pertaining to her daughter. We don't know if SHE isn't abused, since her mother thinks "she legal"...
Rebl2
(17,235 posts)She would be ok with a 35 yo going out with her daughter then? This woman is a sickening.
Wiz Imp
(8,288 posts)It should be 18 in every state. A number of states have raised the age of consent in the relatively recent past. But for now:
States where the age of consent is 16 (30): Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.
States where the age of consent is 17 (7): Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Wyoming.
States where the age of consent is 18 (13): Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Note: in some states, a person can still be charged with a crime for having sex with a person even after they reach the age of consent, if certain criteria are met. For example: Even though a person may legally consent to sexual activity with someone of any age older than him/her once he/she turns 16, Pennsylvania state prosecutors may still charge a person 18 or older with corruption of a minor if a person has consensual sexual intercourse with a 16 or 17 year old
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BlueTsunami2018
(4,775 posts)jennifer.witz@gmail.com
Go right to the top. Kelly said this bullshit on her channel.
Mr.WeRP
(1,063 posts)The lowest age of consent in any state is 16.
Federal law dictates 18.
While it may not be pedophilia (which applies to prepubescent attraction disorder), it is still STATUTORY RAPE!
BradBo
(834 posts)raging moderate
(4,599 posts)Plus, 15-year-old girls should also be protected. AND 16-year-old girls. And 17-year-old girls. ETC.
proud patriot
(102,321 posts)shared
choie
(6,443 posts)I bet she'd sing a different tune if we were talking about Biden or Obama.
yourout
(8,664 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,086 posts)She has a 14 yr old and a 16 yr old. So if a 50 yr old male victimized her children, she would sit there and try to have a " scholarly" discussion about it instead of focusing on the fact that her children were victimized?
johnnyfins
(3,298 posts)Saying it.
She admitted she knows someone close to the case. So she may have info on whats in the files.
Why is she making this excuse for Epstein now? He's been dead for years.
She is saying TSF was involved, and she doesn't even realize she's saying it.
Either that or she is doing it deliberately(in furtherance of her insatiable quest to stay relevant), which is worse.
Cherrycheeks
(287 posts)So its okay for her daughters
kacekwl
(8,794 posts)who knows a lot but not everything should expose this criminal or at the very least being a " news person " she should do an expose and spill the beans.
LetMyPeopleVote
(173,008 posts)regnaD kciN
(27,369 posts)USS_Dauntless
(129 posts)Norrrm
(3,494 posts)Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson marry teens advice
Duck Dynasty guy said you should marry those young girls at 15 or 16.
http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/duck-dynasty-star-men-should-marry-teens
Look, you wait til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking thats going to take place is your pocket, he says. You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. Robertson later adds: You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.
Skittles
(168,717 posts)yes indeed
ArnoldLayne
(2,250 posts)thought crime
(1,027 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,038 posts)Rationalizing and projecting.
MIButterfly
(1,698 posts)Go away, Megyn, and don't come back. You're an embarrassment to all decent people. You and Ann Coulter should get a house together and talk your stupid ignorant shit to each other all day long.
Norbert
(7,469 posts)No, wait. We are already there.
Samael13
(99 posts)She said by the time trump is done there will be no legal age of consent it'll be based on has the girl had her cycle yet. At the time I thought it was dramatic now looking at everything makes me wonder if she was right.
Orrex
(66,431 posts)What else could Reichwingers possibly intend?
dawn5651
(736 posts)Emile
(39,324 posts)flashman13
(1,797 posts)Megyn is a major low life ass kisser.
Martin68
(26,668 posts)haele
(14,889 posts)But that was 200 years ago, and even then, 17 years old was a far more acceptable age for a girl to get married. As it was, the term "Not 17" was used by the upper class to refer to the age their daughters became eligible for engagement, as 16 was typically the age girls were brought out to society during "the Season" when rich folks mingled and looked for suitable marriages for their older children. The few 15 year olds brought out always turned 16 during the Season.
Lots of young women died in childbirth, too...
Seems to be where the GOP is looking to take this country, along with the rest of their Iron Age agenda..."barely legal" girls who are pretty or come with dowries being paraded about at parties for older men to pick from.
Borogove
(355 posts)twodogsbarking
(16,893 posts)MW67
(75 posts)Sounds like 12 years, but both are minors, Thinking some repub may introduce a bill to soon to lower the "Adult" age to 5
EnergizedLib
(2,896 posts)Sex trafficking and rape are crimes, no matter what age or sex they are.
But 15 isnt legal.
republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)Bristlecone
(10,965 posts)Even pretend what you are saying is your belief. Just a grotesque and awful person.
drmeow
(5,847 posts)They are already subject to the abuse of her being the adult that controls their lives (I won't call her a mother or a parent as being a mother or parent, even a bad one, requires some humanity, of which Kelly has none) - get them out of that house before the abuse gets worse.
themaguffin
(4,863 posts)hear that same anything - absolutely anything.

