White House Rushes to Trump’s Defense After Alan Ritchson Torches President Over Epstein Files 90%

By Charisma Madarang48%

7/25/2026, 4:25:48 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 49.5% saturation with 150 hits. Analysis detected 1,131 faulty-reasoning hits from 303 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.7% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,354 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.20% of the article peer group.

The White House came to Donald Trump's defense after Reacher star Alan Ritchson <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/alan-ritchson-donald-trump-epstein-files-new-interview-1235598526/">slammed</a><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/alan-ritchson-donald-trump-epstein-files-new-interview-1235598526/"> the president over his handling of the Epstein files</a>. 
“Just as President Trump has said, he&rsquo;s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to <em>Entertainment Weekl</em>y. 
“And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee&rsquo;s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein&rsquo;s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein&rsquo;s victims than anyone before him.” 
The response arrived a day after Ritchson's interview with the&nbsp;<em>Happy Sad Confused</em>&nbsp;podcast. 
The actor called the president a &ldquo;bitch&rdquo; and a &ldquo;fucking rapist,&#8221; and criticized the government over the sluggish release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the president&rsquo;s alleged association with the convicted pedophile. &ldquo;The Epstein files, the fucking Epstein files! 
&rdquo; Ritchson said. &ldquo;Goddamn it! 
Where are they? 
It&rsquo;s a fucking law, bitch. 
Show it. 
You fucking pedophiles! 
&rdquo; (Trump has repeatedly denied rape allegations against him.) 
Launching into his tirade, Ritchson added, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t care what room they&rsquo;re in, bitch, move. 
Give me the fucking manila envelope. 
I will get you the Epstein files. 
Don&rsquo;t you want to see what&rsquo;s in there, so that we can hold people accountable? 
These fucking rapists! 
We&rsquo;re just cool with it? 
&rdquo; 
While there has been significant <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5766260/epstein-files-arrests-doj-prosecutors" target="_blank">legal and political fallout in the U.K.</a> since the release of the files in 2025 and 2026, there have been no related arrests in the U.S.&nbsp;to date. 
Confirmation Bias
31%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
11.6%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
5.3%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
14.2%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
3.3%
Pessimism Bias
3%
Negativity Bias
49.5%
Self-Serving Bias
23.1%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
4%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
41.6%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
2%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
14.2%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
25.7%
Red Herring
2%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
37.3%
Begging the Question
13.9%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
15.5%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0.7%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
1.7%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
21.5%
Biased Writer Voice
32%
Indoctrination
8.9%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
11.6%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

303 words analyzed.

Analysis

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