A CNN host was left stunned after hearing Megyn Kelly’s bizarre rant in which she said Jeffrey Epstein was “not a pedophile.”
CNN aired a clip of Kelly saying the trafficker preyed on the “barely-legal type,” like “15-year-old girls,” adding that she felt such crimes were not as disgusting as those perpetrated against elementary-aged kids.
CNN host Laura Coates had a visceral reaction after listening to Kelly and said, “What in the hell?”
She continued, “You had to be under 10 to be preyed upon by a grown man? No, that’s not the definition at all.”
Thousands on the right and left came together to agree that Kelly’s comments were beyond the pale.
The conservative host, who was fired from NBC in 2018 after she defended blackface on air, has not apologized for the controversial take—ev

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