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Megyn Kelly Suggests Jeffrey Epstein Wasn't A Pedophile Then Cries Victim Over Babylon Bee Post

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Friday, Nov 14, 2025 - 13:00

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​​​​​​For the better part of two decades, Megyn Kelly was a mainstay in the legacy media landscape. From 2004, when she was first hired by Fox News, until 2019, when NBC canceled Megyn Kelly Today following controversial comments on the appropriateness of blackface that were sure to be a death knell for her future with the left-wing outlet she joined like a turncoat after years as a conservative pundit, Kelly was one of the most recognizable faces and successful “journalists” on the front lines of the mainstream media. In those 15-plus years, Kelly, like all her fellow legacy media puppets, was virtually mum on the depraved crimes of known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, despite the fact that Epstein’s infamy was a matter of public record as early as 2007.

Following her departure from NBC, Kelly pivoted from the legacy media establishment to becoming an independent journalist in the newly emerging alternative media landscape, which sought to challenge the narratives woven by the mainstream. That pivot saw Kelly rebrand herself as a voice of dissent instead of the talking head she had been for years. Since embarking upon the next stage of her career in journalism, Kelly has latched onto every alternative media talking point that she ignored during her time with Fox and NBC as a means of opportunistically attempting to put her public image in a new light. Rarely has she ever broken new ground, making her image as a member of the alternative media one that is gilded, at best. Her latest comments on Epstein prove the adage that a tiger can’t change its stripes, as Kelly’s remarks echo the narratives spread by the legacy media that were so integral to running cover for the notorious pedophile.

On a November 12th episode of the Megyn Kelly Show, the eponymous host dedicated a segment of her show to describe how, for years, she operated under the belief that Jeffrey Epstein was never a pedophile. Instead, Kelly recounts how her belief, shaped by sources she accrued in her career as a journalist, was that Epstein was attracted to “barely legal types” around the age of 15. Kelly continued on to state that she remained unconvinced that Epstein was actually a pedophile until Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that the US Department of Justice was in possession of tens of thousands of videos depicting child sexual abuse committed by Epstein. Immediately thereafter, Kelly threw cold water on the conclusion that there is irrefutable proof that Epstein was a pedophile by casting doubt on Bondi’s credibility, tacitly denouncing the legitimacy of that evidence’s existence. Kelly concluded her point by strikingly stating, “We have yet to see anybody come forward and say, ‘I was 8, I was under 10, I was under 14 when I first came into his purview’....I think there’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old; that’s just.…whatever.” A point to which her guest Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of “Batya” on NewsNation, voiced her agreement.

The “distinction” Kelly makes is one that defenders of pedophiles, like those pushing terms like “minor attracted persons” and “virtuous pedophiles,” push to justify their perversions. Instead of rightfully labeling people like Epstein as pedophiles, they choose to brand them as ephebophiles. The term “ephebophilia” is defined as the sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents generally between the ages of 15 and 19, whose sexual development is post-pubescent but has not reached its full adult maturation. Making that distinction is as nefarious as it is pedantic, as the point entirely deflects away from the predatory nature of the underlying sexual perversion of pedophilia by turning any discourse on it into a cold, clinical discussion instead of one rightfully concerned with its irreconcilable immorality.

As shocking as the testimony given by Kelly was, perhaps it should come as no surprise. In addition to ignoring Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes for the bulk of her career until it was advantageous for her to delve into them in order to cultivate the mirage that she is a journalist operating with integrity, Kelly is of course the woman who gave Comet Pizza and Ping Pong owner James Alefantis a puff-piece interview during her time at Fox News in the wake of the controversy surrounding his restaurant that became known as Pizzagate. That interview, like Kelly’s coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein case over the years, failed to raise any serious questions or showcase a mission to endeavor into any hard-hitting journalism motivated by pursuing the truth.

Unfortunately for Kelly, there is one damning point entirely eviscerating her recent comments on Epstein: it has been well-established that Epstein was trafficking children who were younger than the ages she suggests his victims were isolated to. In a lawsuit filed by the Government of the United States Virgin Islands against the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein in 2020, prosecutors allege that air traffic controllers and other airport personnel reported seeing Epstein leave his plane with “young girls, some of whom appeared to be between the ages of 11 and 18 years” as recently as 2018, just one year before the pedophile supposedly met his demise.

In the months following Epstein’s 2019 arrest, allegations of him abusing children as young as 11 were even covered by the mainstream media outlets that had been complicit in covering up his crimes for years. On September 11th, 2019, CNBC, a network owned by Kelly’s former employer, published details on how young Epstein’s victims were, citing a report written by a US Marshals inspector investigating the crimes, who interviewed an air traffic controller at the St. Thomas Airport in the US Virgin Islands. The report stated, “she [the air traffic controller] has seen Epstein get off the plane with young girls,” documenting two separate instances of the witness seeing Epstein leaving his plane with minors, “with the first being two girls who appeared to be 11 to 12 years old.” CNBC published the article covering the report of Epstein trafficking children as young as 11 in the months before the lawsuit filed against his estate by prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands.

Despite reports of his abuse of victims as young as 11 being a matter of public record for at least 5 years, Kelly somehow still remains unconvinced that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile. That uncertainty raises questions as to whether or not Kelly is unaware of the reports proving that he was beyond a shadow of a doubt or if she is intentionally omitting them from her coverage of the continued fallout from Epstein’s crimes and their subsequent, ongoing cover-up. The former of those possibilities is a damning indictment of her integrity as a journalist, crossing into the realm of outright negligence. The latter takes criticism of Kelly even further, calling her character into question altogether. In either event, Kelly’s suggestion that no evidence has been presented that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile who trafficked children as young as 11 has been brought to light is abjectly at odds with reality.

In the wake of her remarks doubting the depravity of Jeffrey Epstein, Kelly found herself enveloped in another controversy, albeit one where she was conveniently the victim. On Thursday afternoon, the Babylon Bee published a satirical article titled ‘Megyn Kelly Gets Rid Of Old Pager Just To Be Safe,’ alluding to Operation Grim Beeper, an attack carried out by the Israeli Mossad against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Syria. The attacks using pagers rigged with explosives that were detonated in September resulted in the death of numerous members of Hezbollah but, in quintessential Israeli fashion, injured over 4,000 civilians, killing as many as 12. The Babylon Bee article ostensibly was aimed at satirizing the recent demonization of Kelly that has followed her defense of colleagues such as Tucker Carlson, who has been the target of a new wave of cancel culture embraced by the right under the guise of fighting antisemitism. Kelly responded to the article by tweeting “WTF” to Seth Dillon, the founder of the Babylon Bee, before the website took the satirical article offline. The timing of the article and the subsequent outrage over it almost too conveniently deflected attention away from Kelly’s remarks on Epstein from the day before.

Once the Babylon Bee article was deleted, news trending about Kelly on X became transfixed on the transgressive message behind the satirical piece. With the masses rallying behind Kelly by pushing a narrative casting her in the light of a victim of a subtle threat from the Zionist cabal that she has framed herself as an enemy of to breathe life into the misguided idea she is a dissident voice in the new media landscape, her remarks suggesting that Jeffrey Epstein was not a pedophile were memory-holed just like that.

The example Megyn Kelly has made in her coverage of the continued fallout surrounding Jeffrey Epstein illustrates the precarious nature of the changing media landscape. Since X has returned to its status as a true public forum, it has left the legacy media in tatters. This has seen the rise of independent media personalities taking over the mantle as the most trusted voices in news coverage. While the masses rightfully dissatisfied with the downfall of the mainstream media have come to celebrate a new age of decentralized media, they may have done so overzealously. The likes of people like Megyn Kelly becoming leaders in the vanguard of the new paradigm of alternative media is an omen that ominously forecasts that development is not one of decentralization but rather one of recentralization, in which the same forces of old who malevolently shaped the narratives of the past that audiences are still struggling to break free from the conditioning of have co-opted the very movement led against them.

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