“Clarifying” a moral outrage doesn’t minimize the outrage. You really want to defend a guy saying sex with 13 year olds is ok?
He was speaking for himself, what he perceived to be his willingness to consent, not that he’d be out looking for 13 year olds.
That having been said, he is still wrong in believing he was mature enough to consent. He goes on to say he was molested at 13 and lost his virginity 14, right?
My take on it is that the abuse he suffered messed him up mentally and one of the ways he seems to deal with being molested is by trying to take away the molester’s power.
He has specifically clarified thatbsex with 13 year old is not ok. He literally said that. Today.
I’ll accept that over an old tape on a late night raunchy humorous podcast, timed for release as a political hit.