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.
Nothing justifies ambushing Domestic deployed National Guardsmen ever! Was this a false-flag incident? Or the act of some random lunatic? Neither is justifiable but we must wait for more details. As we wait, some thoughts to consider:
Trump knows that sending National Guards from other states into cities is controversial, provocative, and possibly incendiary. His decisions have been made with the intent to incite something, anything, that would allow him to stoke more protests and tension to justify even more repressive actions.
Ultimately, IMHO, DJT would like nothing better than to provoke (or to false flag) an incident that his cabinet will consider bad enough to invoke the Insurrection Act. His 2020 team of insiders plotted to invoke the Act back then, and now his current gaggle of extremist, pro-authoritarian advisors would be thrilled to see Trump become dictator. Right out of the authoritarian how-to guide-book that led 1933 Germany to empower its own one-party dictatorship.