I’ll bet you that Alan Dershowitz is the guy Megyn Kelly (a former lawyer) was referring to when she said recently that “somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything” essentially persuaded her that Jeffrey Epstein is not a pedophile because his sex-trafficking victims were the “barely legal type” and not “like, eight-year olds.”
Regardless, it hardly seems like a coincidence that Dershowitz took to NewsNation Friday night and repeated the same “not a pedophile” talking point. He complained about a previous guest describing Epstein, Dershowitz’s former client, as “a convicted pedophile.”
“He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not pedophile,” Dershowitz said.
Well, OK, that might matter in a legal dictionary or a medical treatise. But it’s still statutory rape, a felony in Florida. That’s the state where Dershowitz negotiated Epstein’s shockingly lenient plea deal that allowed him to leave prison six days a week for an office where he reportedly received “young women” visitors.
