Kevin OLeary

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary didn’t come off as wonderful on a recent episode of CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillip.

On Tuesday’s episode, things got heated while the panel was discussing the controversy surrounding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. During the conversation, Phillip questioned why President Donald Trump hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Epstein’s accomplice, convicted sex felon Ghislaine Maxwell.

President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.

The speculation surrounding Epstein and Maxwell — two notorious child sex traffickers who were longtime friends of the president — seemed to irk O’Leary. So, in response to Phillip’s question, the investor attempted to quell the whole conversation by making a sweeping statement about those most affected by the duo’s crimes.

“If any of you cared about the victims, you wouldn’t drag these women who are in childbearing years now, some of them now having children, back into the limelight, back into the same story, to expose them again to this hideous outcome,” O’Leary said.

He added, “These guys …. they don’t want you to help them anymore.”

“How do you know that?” former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross, who was part of the panel, asked O’Leary. “What are you basing that on? You’ve spoken to the victims who said that they don’t want........

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