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Megyn Kelly mused on Wednesday about whether “pedophile” was really the right word for a man who “liked 15-year-old girls.”<\/span>The Megyn Kelly Show\/YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Megyn Kelly is<\/span> known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. <\/p>\n There was her insistence<\/a> that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim that wearing blackface used to<\/a> not be so bad (that one got her fired from NBC News). Wednesday, on her eponymous SiriusXM show<\/a>, Kelly picked another hill to die on: She implied, in conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, that it wasn\u2019t quite fair to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile because he was \u201cinto the barely legal type\u201d of minors\u2014which Kelly appallingly defines as \u201clike, 15-year-olds\u201d\u2014who look<\/em> like they could be legal adults. Epstein was charged<\/a> with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, and the Department of Justice said he abused and exploited dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14.<\/p>\n But Kelly said she nonetheless questioned how to characterize Epstein because, she claims, she knows \u201csomebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything,\u201d and \u201cthis person has told me from the start, years and years ago, that Jeffrey Epstein, in this person\u2019s view, was not a pedophile.\u201d<\/p>\n