LEMON DROP | Megyn Kelly's Shocking Epstein Defense!
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Why is Megyn Kelly facing backlash for her recent comments on Jeffrey Epstein?
Megyn Kelly is up against it right now. She's had a really bad week rolling into another week. And you know what? She deserves it. She is having the weeks she deserves. Some weeks, they don't really just unfold. They kind of just collapse into each other, fold into themselves. So I believe that's what happened with Megyn Kelly. This one... The week is stacking mistake on mistake until suddenly the whole country is looking at the same mess at the same time is what's happening right now. Not one story, not one headline. It's not just one joke. It's a pileup, a wave, very bad week rolling right into a second one. So let's talk this through. And I want it to be simple and clear, as clear as I can make it, because it didn't all happen together, but they just so happened to coincide with the uproar and everything that's coming out this week.
Okay, so I'm going to go in order so that... you know the way the audience, which is you, is experiencing it, okay? Because that's why this is blowing up. So we're gonna start like about a year ago when Ryan Grodowski, Grodowski is his name, where he is on a show and then he makes this terrible, a cable news show, he makes this terrible reference to Mehdi Hasan, who's there on the show with him, says, I hope your beeper doesn't go off. And then he thought it was funny. Everybody knows what that means. That's the beeper bombs in Lebanon, right? Against Hezbollah, real bodies, real trauma, real deaths. And then Mehdi pushes back and he says, that's not okay. And Megyn Kelly though, she doesn't blink. Megyn Kelly doesn't even pause.
She doesn't say, oh, you know, hold on to that. You know, that's a very bad reference. So she invites this Gerduski guy on her show, smiles, and then laughs about it. Here it is.
Here's where it went south. Mehdi Hassan leaned so far into playing the victim. He reminded me of those World Cup soccer players and their drama, pretending that they're hurt so that they can get a red card or whatever on somebody else. It was over the top. He deserves an Academy Award for the, did you just say you want me dead? You just said you want me to be killed? What is it? It's obvious.
All right, so I want you to hold on to that, okay, to think about it, because I'm going to get back to that. But she smiles and laughs and joins in on the fun, mocking Mehdi's discomfort and comparing him to an overdramatic European soccer player who flops on the ground pretending to be hurt. Or if they are, they do get a foul, you know, they overdo it because they want to make sure the ref sees it and whatever. So that clip, that was a scandal, an uproar, and then it went away. But that clip sat quietly for months. Okay, but not anymore. Now I want you to fast forward to, so hold that one. So I want you to fast forward to this month. Megyn Kelly sits on her show and she says that Jeffrey Epstein was not a pedophile.
And then she tried to explain what a pedophile is and saying there's a difference between a five-year-old and a 15 year old. Now, here it is, I wanna see, I wanna play it and then you can make of it whatever you want here.
As for Epstein, I've said this before, but just as a reminder, I do know somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything, not everything, but virtually everything. And this person has told me from the start years and years ago that Jeffrey Epstein in this person's view was not a pedophile. This is this person's view who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type like he liked 15 year old girls. And I realize this is disgusting. I'm definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I'm just giving you facts that he wasn't into like eight year olds, but he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look
legal to a passerby. And that is what I believed. And that was what I reliably was told for many years. And it wasn't until we heard from Pam Bondi that they had tens of thousands of videos of alleged, forgive me, they used to call it kiddie porn.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why is Megyn Kelly facing backlash for her recent comments on Jeffrey Epstein?
0:13–5:56
2
What earlier Mehdi Hasan–Ryan Grodowski clip explains Megyn Kelly's pattern of reactions?
5:56–13:15
3
How did Megyn Kelly define 'pedophile' and why did that spark outrage?
13:15–14:50
4
What evidence and statements did Megyn Kelly cite to argue Epstein wasn't a pedophile?
14:50–16:16