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Megyn Kelly's 'distinction' downplays the harm Epstein caused

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I don't watch "The Megyn Kelly Show," and I don't typically give two flying figs about what the former Fox News host says or feels.

But I've been thinking about Kelly's comments about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's victims. Because I do care that sexual abuse victims are harmed, because so many others in our society say and believe the same destructive things.

On her Nov. 12 episode, Kelly said she was led to believe that Epstein wasn't an actual pedophile because he was into the "barely legal" types: i.e., 15-year-old girls who "could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby."

Many of those victims pushed for the U.S. House of Representatives to vote to release the Epstein files.

Representatives voted 427-1 on on Nov. 18 to compel the Department of Justice to release as much information as legally possible about the federal government's investigations into the late disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker.

Later that Tuesday, the Senate unanimously approved the bill, and President

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