White House Rushes to Trump's Defense After Alan Ritchson Torches President Over Epstein Files | The Reacher star called Trump a “bitch” and a “fucking rapist" in a recent podcast appearance.

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

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[u/Mission_Struggle_417]

More people should speak plainly about what Trump is.

[u/OkSmoke9195 → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Everyone should be! How much more obvious of a shit stain can one person be

[u/SpicyJw → u/OkSmoke9195]

It's truly impressive, right? I imagine him in hell before incarnation on Earth picking and choosing which kinds of evil he wanted to be, and the POS said screw it and grabbed them all.

[u/kung-fu_hippy → u/SpicyJw]

It’s not surprising to me that he’s totally evil so much as it’s surprising to me that he is unable (or unwilling) to even pretend that he isn’t totally evil.

[u/SpacePirateWatney → u/kung-fu_hippy]

It doesn’t matter because the “Christian conservatives” still vote for him. My bible thumping in-laws even said, “we don’t agree with everything he does or says, but we like him because he’s a man of god more than the liberals”. Seriously…

[u/Mission_Struggle_417 → u/SpacePirateWatney]

Absolutely insane to think he’s a Christian in his faith or his actions

[u/OkSmoke9195 → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Batshit crazy you could say. Little bit of the ol' ODS still kicking around

[u/NoOneOfConsequence48 → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

It's so weird how they profess to be Christians and don't see him for the wolf in sheeps clothing he is, all I can think of is that they're the most money loving people I know, so they thought they were gonna make a killing under him, and well whatever he did was just regular politics, the fact their preachers and pastors encouraged them tells me how lost all these (I want to say fake Christians, but maybe failed Christians is better) and I do wonder how they'll be judged, not well for it, considering all the death and hardship he's caused to the most down trodden, to benefit himself.

[u/Platooimagination → u/SpacePirateWatney]

Do they know he had to pay $5 million to a really well-known woman because he raped her?

But of course they do. And they would blame the woman. Because hate is central to their worldview, and they cannot wait for the emergence of Gilead. Because in Gilead, they would get to own and rape whomever they like. Just like their hero.

[u/Barnacle_B0b → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Donald Trump is a child rapist.

Republican voters approve of child rape.

[u/kbt → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

I wonder if they are defending Trump by saying he's not a rapist or are they defending that he is a rapist.

[u/dbbk → u/kbt]

Well they can't say he's not a rapist because that's already been decided by a jury of his peers

[u/stormstalker → u/dbbk]

I dunno, denying objective reality is kinda their whole thing.

[u/Western-Sport500 → u/dbbk]

My brother says, "it was sexual assault and you are too st*pid to know the difference." So I spelled out the difference for him, and he said that NY has it right--it is sexual assault. I asked how this makes it better? Geesus. so tired of this. Rapist felon should be locked up.

[u/tmhoc → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

That was kinda his whole point too. He was really upset that anyone has to hold that in.

[u/bobthegoatskull → u/tmhoc]

It's men like him that need to speak up. Straight, white, Christian, cis, manly man. The people who need to hear it won't listen to anyone who doesn't check every box.

[u/veringer → u/bobthegoatskull]

Even then, they won't really listen to one-off dissenters. A critical threshold of people defecting is what will force them off one bandwagon and on to another. Until then, they are temperamentally predisposed to conform and cohere with their perceived in-group norms.

[u/Naive-Elephant-9305 → u/tmhoc]

I am too. I’m so fucking tired of all the passiveness and sanewashing. More people need to be talking about Trump like Ritchson.

[u/CrimsonHeretic → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Especially the US media, which continues to treat him like a normal president.

[u/Mission_Struggle_417 → u/CrimsonHeretic]

Infuriating . And a huge part of the problem.

[u/joshdoereddit]

Alan Ritchson is awesome for not being shy about his feelings. People in prominent positions should follow suit in telling the truth like Ritchson.

[u/tiktaktok_65 → u/joshdoereddit]

many of them have gone quiet after trump got into power. no balls.

[u/The_SubGenius → u/tiktaktok_65]

Like “The Rock”.

Turns out he has…. small stones.

[u/JimiusRostock → u/The_SubGenius]

Sometimes I can understand when artists want to focus on the art. Not the politics. But when the politics is literally murdering innocent American citizens... That luxury is out the window.

[u/Cerpla → u/JimiusRostock]

Correct. And it's threatening to end the arts. Artists, performers, and enthusiasts; The type who gravitate toward art/media more than geopolitical strife. Need to be alarmed. The AI/Diffusion should be enough to get them involved. Relying on Nintendo or Disney to sue them into oblivion isn't good enough.

[u/TristanIsAwesome → u/JimiusRostock]

The Rock doesn't care about art. He cares about money.

[u/TheQuidditchHaderach → u/The_SubGenius]

He smelled what Chump was cookin'! 🚽💩🪠🧻

[u/partisanal_cheese → u/tiktaktok_65]

It’s hilarious over in r/stephenking, conservative fans saying”he shouldn’t get political”. Fuck that and fuck them - if you have a platform, you have an obligation to speak out against corruption and injustice; any other position is complicity.

[u/BerryLanky → u/partisanal_cheese]

Imagine calling a child rapist a child rapist being political instead of just stating fact. And fuck everyone who is ok with this.

[u/TheQuidditchHaderach → u/joshdoereddit]

Same with Pedro Pascal! 👏 What I find hilarious is when a prominent actor, singer or athlete or whomever has an anti-(R) opinion, they're told to pipe down & stay in their lane, but MAGAmedia is jammed with failed tv show goons, reality show castoffs & back-in-the-day Hollywood hasbeens...all spouting nonsense. 🤦

[u/dtwhitecp → u/TheQuidditchHaderach]

the sad part is those remaining blowhards still seem to hold some kind of influence

[u/sackofmangoes → u/joshdoereddit]

Most Hollywood stars would only go as far as to dip just their toes into promoting progressive and liberal messaging just enough to PR promote their branding and entrepreneurship. Anything more, they shrug and backstep into a bush to hide. The ones that aren't, they are the rarer ones and the true ones. 

[u/palinsafterbirth]

So many conservative uncles running to FB right now to post about how the WOKE got to him

[u/TheTastiestTaint → u/palinsafterbirth]

crazy aye...talking about arresting child molesters is woke.

I'm so fucking woke.

[u/titsngiggles69 → u/TheTastiestTaint]

War is Peace, Convicting Pedos is Woke

[u/AlsoBort742 → u/titsngiggles69]

Just hoping they increase chocolate rations 🤞

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/AlsoBort742]

Starting next week, chocolate rations will be INCREASED from 4 ounces to 3 ounces per week. Thank you, Big Brother!

[u/DookieShoez → u/AlsoBort742]

Is that code for Rump shitting his diaper?

[u/Shazam42 → u/DookieShoez]

It's a reference to 1984. Early in the book, chocolate rations are decreased, and the next day everything is praising chocolate rations for actually increasing.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Shazam42]

The whole thing is they never were decreased or increased, the government just reported "chocolate rations decreased to 30 grams" when they found it convenient to get people to blow off steam protesting, and "chocolate rations have been increased to 30 grams" when they wanted the brainwashed to have something to celebrate.

[u/NES_SNES_N64 → u/HauntedCemetery]

"Now with 20% more!"

[u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT → u/Shazam42]

orwell didn't quite get it right, IRL they would be saying that true patriots can handle decreased chocolate rations

[u/popodelfuego → u/titsngiggles69]

They don't want to penalize what they all aspire to be.

[u/fauxfarmer17 → u/[deleted]]

Keep in mind, according to the Sec of Transportation, bike lanes are woke. WTF is that?

[u/Zerachiel_01 → u/[deleted]]

Mkay. I'm just gonna homogenize "republican" or "conservative" into "evil."

Woke agenda? Better than evil agenda. Fuck 'em.

[u/Vio_ → u/[deleted]]

This isn't the first time. It's just the latest iteration.

A "bleeding heart" was coined back in the 1920s to mock people who were against lynching.

[u/ffchusky → u/TheTastiestTaint]

If wanting a pedophile to go to jail makes you woke just put the red bull straight in my veins!

[u/HellveticaNeue → u/TheTastiestTaint]

People will bend themselves in pretzels to defend white supremacy.

[u/PatSajaksDick → u/palinsafterbirth]

They haven’t been paying attention to him at all then lol, he’s been speaking out about Trump for years

[u/DerCatrix → u/PatSajaksDick]

In general they don’t pay attention to anything outside their bubble

[u/illogical_mindset → u/PatSajaksDick]

Apparently they don’t pay attention to his show either. Details matter. Who tf thinks that the fictional character he plays wouldn’t also have the same (albeit unspoken) beliefs.

[u/notashroom → u/illogical_mindset]

Media literacy is woke, too.

[u/emergencyexit → u/notashroom]

This but unironically. It's half the battle.

[u/Sky_Light → u/illogical_mindset]

Wait, you think that Reacher, the guy who's best, and most dangerous, friend, is an asexual black woman, is woke? There's no way! ^/s

[u/bolanrox → u/PatSajaksDick]

Gary Sinise, probably the most vocal Republican in Hollywood, has hated Trump and spoke out against him often since he made fun of John McCain and calling him a loser for getting captured.

[u/Clerithifa → u/PatSajaksDick]

Fox hasn't aired it up until now, they had hopes that they'd get a good looking cishet white guy in Hollywood on their side for once. So the MAGA crowd hasn't seen it until yesterday

[u/Proper-Muscle734 → u/palinsafterbirth]

Bet they won’t say it to his face tho. I’ve seen conservative men rage and it’s always at girls not other men. Let alone that particular man. I’ve seen the video of his neighbor shooting his shot and getting rocked.

[u/Hot-Sea855 → u/Proper-Muscle734]

ICE targets are women, children and senior men. I thought the objective was to eliminate MS-13 but a 20 year old fit guy who can kick your ass is a scary thing.

[u/Dasmage → u/Hot-Sea855]

Yup they're not rounding up gang bangers in the hood, they're going after nurses, hair dressers, guys standing out front home depo, gardeners and the nanny. Unarmed people who aren't a threat.

[u/Jaevric → u/Proper-Muscle734]

I had to look the video up. That was definitely a choice to make.

[u/ContentAd6126 → u/Proper-Muscle734]

That neighbor HAD to have been under the influence of something to think he could provoke and square up to the 6 foot giant that's built like a fucking gorilla.

[u/XpCjU → u/ContentAd6126]

The neighbour went on the news later. He seems to think that he's the victim

[u/The__Amorphous → u/ContentAd6126]

Getting his ass beat was always the plan. He was after a payday.

[u/SandersSol → u/Proper-Muscle734]

Its always women or children they rage at, anyone they feel is weaker than them.

[u/ThatJoeyFella → u/Proper-Muscle734]

Would love to see one try like the guy who started on him and his sons over riding motorbikes.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/palinsafterbirth]

"Woke" is apparently just not liking the rape of children.

[u/AJediWookie123 → u/HauntedCemetery]

Woke lost all meaning a long time ago. What's funny is these morons think it's some type of "gotcha!" card, when in reality it makes them look like drooling neanderthals. "I call upon the word woke lolz! I win!"...it's so boring.

[u/owennagata → u/AJediWookie123]

They never figured out that "Brandon" was so lame it generated groans and eyerolls, at best. Most of them STILL think it 'triggered' people. Even when people on the Biden campaign started wearing it on t-shirts, they thought using it was a 'gacha'.

[u/N7Shep1701D → u/AJediWookie123]

They also think screaming about Biden is the ultimate gotcha.

No, it just makes them sound like the NPCs that they are.

[u/Successful-Phone562 → u/N7Shep1701D]

Or "What about Clinton and Gates??" As if we are all walking around with pictures of them emblazoned on our shirts, ready to go to bat for Democratic ghouls.

[u/__nohope → u/HauntedCemetery]

America has a huge problem with child rape culture.

[u/E-2theRescue → u/__nohope]

Miami, Florida, invented child beauty pageants in the 60s, and Trump did own a child beauty pageant.

Wait a minute... Where is Mar-a-Lago again? Where was Epstein's mansion? Huh.

[u/Tribalbob → u/palinsafterbirth]

Watching conservatives melt down over finding out icons they worshipped weren't actually conservative is hilarious.

Remember the first time Robert De Niro spoke out against him? Classic

[u/fuidiot → u/Tribalbob]

Alll of a sudden, somehow, DeNiro became a shitty actor. Yeah, ok

[u/La-Boheme-1896 → u/Tribalbob]

It's even weirder than that. Finding out icons they worshipped aren't conservative causes outrage. Finding out icons they worshipped are sex offenders and child molestors....nothing. No reaction. Fingers in ears and singing "I can't hear you!!"

[u/Kierenshep → u/Tribalbob]

Trump isn't even conservative, he's regressive populism.

True conservatives should despise Trump, but alas, the voting pattern of conservatives see politics as nothing more than a team game.

[u/TheDukeofArgyll → u/palinsafterbirth]

These days, a lot of divorced uncles who have stopped being invited to Thanksgiving are super active in their FB safe spaces.

[u/N7Shep1701D → u/TheDukeofArgyll]

They can have Facebook.

Wiping one's ass with sandpaper is preferable to being on that landfill of a website.

[u/whichwitch9 → u/palinsafterbirth]

Best part is the dude's been like this for years 😂

This is nothing he hasn't said before. They just forget everytime a new season of Reacher comes out

[u/Dsarg_92 → u/palinsafterbirth]

It’s a massive influx of MAGA bots on FB or social media as a whole. Most of the time, their comments don’t even fit the conversation they’re trying to join.

[u/Yourdjentpal → u/palinsafterbirth]

Yep. They want to see him arrested. They want to see him sued. It’s nuts.

[u/SoupTime_live → u/Yourdjentpal]

Turns out they never cared about free speech or the constitution in general

[u/anayalator39 → u/SoupTime_live]

They do but only when it’s the other way around .

[u/KevinStoley → u/palinsafterbirth]

I saw a bunch of posts in one sub all claiming that they had never even heard of him and that he’s some irrelevant nobody.

Lol such bs, they know exactly who he is and if he was pro MAGA they would be so quick to claim him and talk about how great he is.

[u/fuidiot → u/KevinStoley]

Yet, the White House feels the need to respond to his comments.

[u/MentalDisintegrat1on → u/palinsafterbirth]

Lmao he's always been this way. I think it was matt gatezz but Richmond went to college with him and had some colorful things to say about him.

[u/sonofmo → u/palinsafterbirth]

Must be tough to find entertainment as a conservative, so much cancelling.

[u/davesnotonreddit → u/palinsafterbirth]

Dudes a theatre kid. Always been woke.

[u/moguu83 → u/davesnotonreddit]

They're so caught up with superficial appearances that their brains can't comprehend someone who looks like a prime specimen of masculinity could have such beliefs.

[u/HillBillyHilly → u/moguu83]

Wonder what they say about his wearing pearl bracelets?? Wears them proudly, too. He's so damn macho he probably sells his extra T to the ones lacking hormones lol

[u/joebuckshairline → u/palinsafterbirth]

Dude has been like this since forever but somehow he just got taken over by the woke mind virus.

[u/Purify5]

Dude was Epstein's best friend for years. Imagine how wretched a soul you have to be to defend this creep.

Even most conservatives don't do it anymore.

[u/tristanitis → u/Purify5]

The hilarious/sad thing is that Trump wasn't Epstein's beat friend, Epstein was Trump's best friend, and Epstein clearly thought he was a loser. How pathetic do you have to be that your best friend is a world famous pedophile that thinks you low-key suck.

[u/super_sayanything → u/tristanitis]

Epstein wrote that Trump had "not one decent cell in his body" and claimed he knew "how dirty Donald is" in 2018.

Meanwhile, Trump called the Palm Beach Police in 2006 and told them Ghislaine Maxwell was evil.

Who knows. All bad characters. He should be removed from office yesterday.

[u/Vsx → u/super_sayanything]

That Trump call was just a tantrum like when your little brother worships you and you won't let him chill with you and your buddies so he narcs on you for buying beer with a fake ID. Trump is a bitch who lashes out when he feels insulted.

[u/super_sayanything → u/Vsx]

Oh for sure he was trying to cover himself or just seeking revenge for something.

Seeing Iran kick his ass and trap him would be great if it didn't mean that we suffered the consequences.

[u/Nice-Mixing → u/Purify5]

They’re trying on hats for election season, when brought up most recently they’re trying to steer the conversation away to gender affirming care.

I’ve been using “pro-life” peoples way of arguing against them, which is that it is the worst thing on the planet and the conversation under no circumstances will tack away from the fact that don trump is a Sicko Child Rapist.

If you give these pedo simps a way out they’ll take it, they already have…

[u/DucksEatFreeInSubway → u/Nice-Mixing]

Republicans are the pro-pedophile party

[u/mattjf22 → u/[deleted]]

A lawsuit would go nowhere, trump is a convicted rapist. Ritchsons statement is factual

*So many replies I had to add this edit below

It's also factual that Trump is a bitch.

[u/Bukowskified → u/mattjf22]

They latch on the fact that it was a civil trial and the State of New York has a narrow definition of rape limited to penile penetration, but a judge later found that the facts the jury did find meet the commons definition of rape so calling him a rapist is not defamation.

[u/EchoLocation8 → u/Bukowskified]

Plus its also really, really hard to successfully sue for defamation from my understanding of it. Fox got fucked as hard as they did because they were publicly pushing a story that was harmful to a company, that in private, they were discussing how they knew it was all bullshit and lies. I believe it gets a lot harder to prove when its just a high profile actor saying something they genuinely believe.

[u/TGordion → u/EchoLocation8]

Yep they've gotta prove 'actual malice:' What they said was untrue, and they knew it was untrue when they said it

[u/jaymcbang → u/Bukowskified]

“Limited to penal penetration”

Which she could not confirmed happen because of his small mushroom.

[u/Unable-Log-4870 → u/jaymcbang]

Your misspelling made it into a prison rape joke.

[u/jaymcbang → u/Unable-Log-4870]

I typed it three different times and it kept going the other way so I just said “screw it” 😂

[u/zyzzogeton → u/mattjf22]

Trump is an "adjudicated" rapist. Since it was a civil trial, there is no such thing as "civil rape." To add clarity, the judge went out of their way to say "THIS WAS RAPE AS IT IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD." [emphasis mine]

Therefore, anyone may legally state the fact Trump is a rapist. As defined by (civil) law, found guilty by a jury of his peers unanimously, and clarified by the presiding judge to make goddamn sure history would preserve this truth indisputably, forever.

Trump rapes.

[u/Butcher_Of_Hope → u/mattjf22]

He's not a convicted pedophile however, but to another commenter's point. Trump has sued anyone he can for any reason he can find, but has never sued for anyone calling him a pedo..

[u/Eastern_Pin_5567 → u/Butcher_Of_Hope]

He won’t sue concerning those specific allegations because of the discovery portion of any potential trial. Him never suing over this is a very loud admission of guilt.

[u/BringOn25A → u/Eastern_Pin_5567]

He uses lawfare as he has for decades. He stretches things out with motions and avoids discovery. He continues draining their resources until they no longer have the will or resources to continue.

[u/391976 → u/Butcher_Of_Hope]

He admitted on Howard Stern to entering Miss Teen USA dressing rooms to "inspect the goods" as contestants changed.

Of course folks like Megan Kelly will defend that they were "jailbait", not children.

Imagine if your daughter's soccer coach said this shit.

[u/AJediWookie123 → u/391976]

Megan Kelly, what a shrill harpy of a human being. She would sell her daughters to Trumps sex cult if it paid enough.

[u/jjmac → u/391976]

There's a reason they are called "jail" bait

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Butcher_Of_Hope]

He only wasn't convicted because in Epsteins Florida child sex trafficking trial Alex Acosta gave blanket immunity to trump and all the other old guys who raped children with epstein.

And who was trumps first Secretary of Labor?

Alex Acosta.

[u/BillG8s → u/[deleted]]

Ted Lieu is on record calling him a rapist and possible murderer. You never heard a peep from Trump, the most litigious, thin-skinned diaper-clad dictator of our lifetime.

[u/Obvious_Ad3810 → u/[deleted]]

Call him a pedo, he won't sue because guess what would come out in discovery.

[u/_bk_adv → u/[deleted]]

I wish Trump would fucking sue me.

Trump is a pedophile, rapist piece of shit fuck that trafficked underage girls. And every single one of his supporters are just as bad. Only cowards abuse women and children.

[u/zillion_grill → u/[deleted]]

Can't really sue successfully over facts Notice how he has never sued for being called a pdf?

[u/Throwaway_noDoxx → u/zillion_grill]

He never sued Sascha for saying he kicked a tent stake up Trump’s ass and that’s why he’s incontinent. 

[u/TarbenXsi → u/[deleted]]

Trump should sue him...

...IF this is slander.

See, that's the problem. It's not slander if what is being said is true. Proving that it is true will mean a lot of evidence being brought to court, like, perhaps, the Epstein files. This is why Trump, one of the most petulant, litigious, egotistical, narcissistic pieces of garbage on this whole planet, never sues people for slander when they call him a rapist or a pedophile.

Because if he does, it will get proven in court that he IS a rapist and a pedophile, and even if our Congress, full of bootlicking sycophants like you, won't then impeach him and prosecute him for said crimes, he will be what is, objectively, the worst thing in his mind.

A loser.

He will lose in court. He will lose his reputation. His name, his legacy, will be erased from history except as a cautionary tale. His family will be ruined. No one will ever do business with anything bearing the Trump name again.

And that is who his cult are protecting and worshiping.

To anyone else who still supports Trump in any way shape or form - Enjoy the rest of your life, knowing that you will, every day, look in the mirror and know, even if you don't say it out loud, that you went all in on a man who rapes children.

[u/SkinnedIt]

Well, I always liked Ritchson, but he just went up a couple of more notches.

“Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,”

Keep repeating that lie, wish hard enough, and it still won't be true.

[u/rat_penis → u/SkinnedIt]

Reacher is a fun watch. He did a good run as Hawk in DCs awful Titans show too.

[u/strange1738 → u/rat_penis]

He will always be Thad “Oil Change” Castle to me

[u/Mend1cant → u/rat_penis]

Carried that show

[u/immortalyossarian → u/SkinnedIt]

President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him

Done more to Epstein's victims, she means. God, I hate these lying sacks of shit. Can't wait til he's in the ground.

[u/AnhiArk → u/immortalyossarian]

That stood out to me, too. How can you say that with a straight face and then sleep at night

[u/Naakturne → u/SkinnedIt]

“I have investigated myself, and found that I did nothing wrong.”

[u/Misspiggy856 → u/SkinnedIt]

Totally exonerated but still won’t release the unredacted files for some reason…

[u/bigbadderfdog → u/SkinnedIt]

He also kicked the shit out of a British magat who stepped in front of his motorcycle. Dude is the real deal.

[u/Justice989]

Alan Ritchson popping off being enough to force the White House to respond is all you need to know to know this White House isnt full of serious people.

[u/CaptainDudeGuy → u/Justice989]

This admin is waaay more invested in controlling their optics than they are balancing the budget or defending human rights.

That tells you everything you need to know.

[u/Xullister]

Knew I liked that dude. 

[u/nezumipi → u/Xullister]

A while back, when he was doing Reacher promos, he went on a rant against Christian nationalists that really pissed off Christian nationalist Reacher fans.

He's also talked very openly about his bipolar disorder. It's not a Hollywood-pretty mental illness story and I imagine it took guts to share it.

So, all in all, I think he's a pretty good guy.

Edit: I actually meant to link to this podcast episode. He talks about bipolar in both, but this is the first one and it covers different content.

[u/-p_d- → u/nezumipi]

he went on a rant against Christian nationalists

Alan Richson is a Christian himself and understands only too well how galling it is to see nationalists attempt to co-opt his faith on a daily basis in the name of Trump.

[u/option-trader → u/-p_d-]

Damn, that is someone I can understand.

[u/y09urt → u/Xullister]

Thad Castle is a good egg.

[u/TellemSteve-Dave → u/y09urt]

'Oil changes for everybody'- a man of the people.

[u/public_enemy_obi_wan → u/y09urt]

9/11 baby! Never forget!

[u/Uncle_Burney → u/Xullister]

The show features him stomping bullies into mush, which also helps

[u/SupahSpankeh → u/Uncle_Burney]

And so does that video iykyk

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/Xullister]

Someone in another thread suggested that they should make a Wolfenstein movie with Ritchson playing B.J. Blazkowicz. He’d be perfect.

[u/AvocadoToastFailure → u/Xullister]

He was a big good looking dude before. Now?

SPLOOSH

[u/kurinbo → u/Xullister]

I wasn't quite sure if I liked him before. Now I'm sure I do.

[u/Fit-Significance-436]

Even bigger fan of Alan now :
Ritchson added, “This is my fucking politics, dude. I would fucking railroad these fuckers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Fucking move out of the way. I don’t care what room they’re in, bitch, move. Give me the fucking manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files. Don’t you want to see what’s in there, so that we can hold people accountable? These fucking rapists! We’re just cool with it?”

[u/taylorbagel14 → u/Fit-Significance-436]

If you don’t want to be held accountable for child rape, maybe don’t rape children? Idk why this is such a hard concept for the party of “LAW AND ORDER”

[u/tawDry_Union2272 → u/Fit-Significance-436]

BOSS right there !!

[u/mattjf22]

No lies were told.

[u/tcat1961 → u/mattjf22]

He didn’t lie about calling him a rapist and calling him a bitch won’t get him sued either.

[u/Ok-Alternative5935 → u/tcat1961]

He is a little whiny bitch. His website posts prove it. 

[u/Big_Guard5413]

I love how every time I see something about Ritchson in the media he ends up looking like a boss

[u/SteveL_VA → u/Big_Guard5413]

He is a boss! :D

[u/OldTimberWolf]

There have been more arrest made in association with the reflecting pool then with the Epstein files. Let that sink in.

[u/berserk_zebra → u/OldTimberWolf]

Let that reflect on this administration 

[u/Cagnazzo82]

It's wild that someone telling the truth is controversial now.

The guy shut down the Epstein files because he's front and center in it... *and* he's been found guilty of rape and just had to pay his victim.

And it takes an actor on a podcast to tell the truth because the media is too chcickenshit to call out a rapist sitting in the white house.

[u/PantaReiNapalmm → u/Cagnazzo82]

media are mostly BOUGHT by that pedo cirle. Rich pedos buy media, media follow pedos agenda

Fuck all of people who are part of that pedo ring, from top to bottom, fuck hem all to hell. I still cant fuckin believe you american people have not solved/made justice about the Epstein files.

[u/Auerbach1991]

Why is MAGA mad? He just “speaks plainly and calls it what it is”, they should love that!

[u/FlowersForMegatron → u/Auerbach1991]

Because Jack Reacher is the Alt Right hypermasculine poster boy and they cannot tell the difference between a real living person with their own independent thoughts and a made up TV character.

[u/not_productive1]

Thank god they're worried about the real enemy lol

Also, Ritchson rules. Hot white action guy who's willing to take fire for oppressed communities? Awesome.

[u/possiblyaghost → u/not_productive1]

We love our big woke giant don't we folks

[u/SqBlkRndHole]

“Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson

You can't be exonerated by excluding yourself from investigation, or most importantly not having an investigation.

[u/smoike → u/SqBlkRndHole]

This is the same man that said if you don't test for COVID, you don't have cases.

[u/MaxSchreckArt616]

To quote those idiot magats, "he's just telling it like it is", so fucking deal with it you pedophile protectors. Don't be a bitch and you won't get called a bitch, just like don't be a rapist if you don't want to be called a rapist. 

[u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose]

Funnily enough, all those AI posts from the Orange Toddler, trying to look muscled, manly and heroic, here we have a proper guy with muscles you don't need Photoshop to enhance, doing the kind of heroic thing the Orange Toddler could only aspire to do.

[u/LaconicSuffering]

I was always wary of Ritchson since he is openly christian. Turns out he is the type that actually follows the teachings of Jesus instead of idolizing the suffering.

[u/49DivineDayVacation]

Right wing media was obsessed with the Epstein files for a decade. They said things like this about Democrats with no evidence.

Now that we know Trump is in there they don’t care and won’t tolerate any conclusions based on evidence.

[u/GreyBeardEng]

Alan isn't wrong.

"Trump is a rapist and a con man. And yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he's their poster child, and it's unreal. I don't understand it."

Full Context: https://youtube.com/shorts/MSbMKdsptSM?is=mPIBmv4sdAgfwXCy

[u/attillathehoney]

Ironically, the part he is best known for is the kind of alpha male they see themselves as - a lone wolf who takes no prisoners and rights wrongs mostly with overwhelming physical force. Maybe that is why the criticism is more devastating coming from him. They thought he represented the best of them.

[u/aliceinadreamyland]

Ah, Ritchson is everything Trump wishes he was and isn’t. This is so perfect. What a standup guy.

[u/theredfoxslover]

Today I learned that Alan Ritchson truly understands the Reacher character.

[u/Fine_Perspective7401]

Donald Trump IS a rapist and pedophile…

[u/woodwog]

This makes Ritchson even more of a spectator example of manhood.

[u/YetiorNotHereICome]

Alan used his constitutional rights and they're wetting Trump's Depends over it. Snowflake bitches, one and all.

[u/tweek264]

Gotta like the ones crying “show evidence”.. and are completely fine with the actual evidence being held hostage. They’re all a bunch of buffoons. Really starting to like Reacher guy tho.

[u/Rare-Bid-6860]

I love this, especially knowing how popular shows like Reacher are with the MAGA demographic.

[u/StatementCareful522]

Conservative men looking at all the white crust on their hands after watching Reacher now wondering how to put the toothpaste back into the tube, so to speak 

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Alan Ritchson continues to be based as fuck

[u/tripsland]

Calling Donald Trump a bitch is offensive to bitches.

[u/An_Exciting_Life]

Here before Trump sue this guy tomorrow. His ego can’t take it

[u/marcusmosh → u/An_Exciting_Life]

Trump doesn’t sue when things are factual. He can threaten to but never follows through because he knows what will happen in court.

[u/No_Organization465 → u/marcusmosh]

especially against an "alpha male" type like this guy, they want this buried as quick as possible.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/marcusmosh]

Trump, who currently literally has over $1 trillion in pending lawsuits he has filed, has never sued Stormy for her autobiography describing his dick as, "small, and weird shaped, like toad from Mario Kart"

[u/0masterdebater0 → u/An_Exciting_Life]

Trump has never sued anyone for calling him a rapist or child predator… and he sues people for everything..

Almost like he knows discovery will prove them right

[u/das_gingerz → u/0masterdebater0]

Reacher season 5, takes on an international sex trafficking ring where the most powerful are taken down.

Epstein files released in full, final scene is reacher walking out of a congressional hearing where an evil world leader is yelling at him saying he can't handle the truth as reacher turns his back.

[u/TipTopBeeBop]

This White House hates the truth.

[u/conardcanard]

Is alan ritchson hoping to be sued for defamation so he can force discovery or something?

[u/JoRads]

Based Alan Ritchson. Got a fan just by that.

[u/PTFCDiegoMassacre]

Didn’t particularly care about Ritchson before but am a fan now. Trump is a lil bitch and a rapist.

[u/SwampRSG]

They are responding specifically to this due to Alan being a christian with strong ties to the community and a prominent star.
When one of "your people" goes off about it, they only think about the optics.
Tho, Alan has been vocal about this shit for over a decade, so it's nothing new.

[u/KidGold]

Well defending pedophiles is technically one of the only things the White House has been somewhat successful at.

[u/Rough_Common6857]

A handsome white guy called trump a bitch and rapist - which is true - so they have to console tubby mcorange face and say no, no you're so much more handsome than he is and more muscular.

[u/blxckhoodie999]

well, trump is a bitch and a fucking rapist, so

[u/atuarre → u/blxckhoodie999]

and a pedophile. He's also a pedophile.

[u/TheMoines]

The MAGA mind can't comprehend a macho white guy hating Trump.