{"id":957967,"date":"2026-07-25T08:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/957967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:28:16","slug":"white-house-responds-to-alan-ritchson-podcast-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/957967\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Responds to Alan Ritchson Podcast Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/356d149fd5c9ce6fe02de287ce2bc991a2-alan-ritchson.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"\u201cMotor City\u201d New York Premiere\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmrzmteu8000i0ifow1bggtzc@published\" data-word-count=\"101\">Alan Ritchson, star of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/reacher-tv-is-a-white-power-fantasy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reacher<\/a>, has been coming after those named in the Epstein files during the press cycle for his new movie Motor City. Now the White House has responded. \u201cJust as President Trump has said, he\u2019s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,\u201d White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/white-house-responds-reacher-star-alan-ritchson-epstein-files-rant-12026679\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cAnd by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee\u2019s subpoena request, signing the Epstein files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein\u2019s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein\u2019s victims than anyone before him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmrzmytx800133b7cs1zoae92@published\" data-word-count=\"102\">Ritchson has been talking about the Epstein files across podcasts. On the Happy Sad Confused pod, he said Dax Shepard told him to \u201clet some of that stuff go,\u201d in reference sex traffickers operating at the highest levels of power. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Let go?\u2019\u201d Ritchson said. Everybody else should feel like I feel \u2026 all mad about the way things are and the abuses that are happening. The Epstein files? The fucking Epstein files! God damn it! Where are they? It\u2019s a fucking law, bitch! Show it, you fucking pedophiles!\u201d Ritchson then apologized for swearing, because it\u2019s not very Christian of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmrzn346g001a3b7ck88aeyxb@published\" data-word-count=\"100\">\u201cDon\u2019t you want to see what\u2019s in there, so that we can hold people accountable? These fucking rapists! We\u2019re just cool with it? That bitch has the keys to the nuclear [weapons,]\u201d Ritchson continued, alluding to but not naming the president. \u201cHe\u2019s all up into 13-year-olds. Dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail.\u201d This is not the first time Ritchson has spoken out about systemic sexual abuse. He has come forward as as survivor, and called the modeling world \u201clegalized sex trafficking.\u201d Ritchson\u2019s episode of Armchair Expert isn\u2019t out yet, but we can probably expect a few more f-bombs.<\/p>\n<p>          Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n<p>An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images Alan Ritchson, star of Reacher, has been coming after those named in the Epstein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":957968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[78077,385347,69,171,193188,15053,78084,53,185906,10409,173,67,132,68,203030],"class_list":["post-957967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alan-ritchson","tag-dad-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-epstein-files","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-motor-city","tag-movies","tag-reacher","tag-sexual-assault","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vulture-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}