Megyn Kelly has a point. Sexual consent laws have been all over the board throughout time and place.
In 1880, American ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.
Today, 23 US states or territories set the "restricted" age of sexual consent at 15 or lower. (In 3 of those jurisdictions, the younger age is 14 and in 10, it's 13.) But the age difference between younger & older partner is very restricted. And the unrestricted age of consent is primarily between 16 & 18.
See; en.wikipedia.org
I hope what Ms Kelly intended to assert is that violating age of consent law isn't necessarily pedophilia. If that was her intent, she's not defending sexual predators.
But Epstein and Maxwell were predators bengaging in trafficking vulnerable young women and exploiting their vulnerability. And consent is generally not being a virtual indentured servant for someone's escort-for-hire business. At a minimum, consent means freely able to say no, without restrictions. Ideally, it implies mutual agreement without duress and under appropriate mental conditions.
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noun
a person exhibiting an exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing:
Example: self-obsessed monomaniacs.
In this case the shoe fits for the top duo, Peter Thiel, Vance's demigod, and whole cast of self-possessed billionnaires & multi-millionaires, and "Little Marco"" and witless Witkoff, the freakin' "--------".