Conservative media host Megyn Kelly offered a carefully hedged reaction to newly released emails from the case files of Jeffrey Epstein.

Kelly acknowledged that the documents “sound bad” for President Donald Trump while simultaneously assuring her audience that Democrats’ attempts to weaponize them are “not going to work.”

“They don’t sound good,” Kelly said on Thursday. “Why didn’t he just release these? Just release them! … Now he’s in a position of being, like, singled out as the only one, allegedly, as opposed to one of a slew of names.”

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The podcast host criticized Democrats on the House Oversight Committee for redacting certain names, saying that it was an attempt to play up the connection to Trump.

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