Hypocritical journalist David Brooks ends up in Epstein photos: Count him in!

Brooks and Sergey Brin at Epstein dinner

Hypocrisy: “The Epstein Story? Count Me Out”

The Epstein story is not going to disappear, despite all of the attempts to kill it from the top of the country to other elites. The story is becoming clearer and clearer. Many of the wealthiest and most prestigious Americans were involved with Jeffrey Epstein and the worst sexual trafficking of your girls in history.

The evidence is overwhelming, and some very powerful and well connected people are included in this criminal enterprise, which is one of the sleaziest in history.

Journalists have been part of the coverup of this story, although Julie Brown from the Miami Herald has done a yeoman job of writing about it. Note, however, that her monumental work has been ignored by the elites at the Pulitzer Board.

Suddenly, the right and left agree on the same issue. We must learn what went on with Epstein and who was involved with him.

Ironies, however, abound in this story. A former president of Harvard is implicated. And, of course, one of his good friends was the current president of the United States, as a New York Times story from Dec. 18 is making clear.

Enter David Brooks, a snooty, uppity right wing writer for the New York Times and a mouthpiece for PBS. He had the audacity to write an op-ed a month ago entitled, “The Epstein Story? Count me out.”

Basically, he said that this was tantamount to a conspiracy loony-toon group called QAnon.

Except that the latest photos that were released by Democrats in the House on Dec. 18 found something very interesting: A photo of Brooks at the Epstein estate with other elites like Google founder Sergey Brin.

Hypocrisy, thy name is David.

Count me out!

Brooks wrote an inane column — which is the usual palate for him — and in it, he equated the desire of Americans to learn the truth about the worst child trafficking case in history to QAnon.

Now, however, he is at the epicenter of this, and it looks like he was covering up for people.

The photo that shows Brooks at Epstein’s get together with people like Sergey Brin, the founder of Google.

He claimed that American society was ridiculous — and he never mentioned that he had visited the Epstein home or party,

So what has America’s political class decided to obsess about over the last several months?

Jeffrey Epstein.

This is a guy who has been dead for six years and who last was in touch with Donald Trump 21 years ago, Trump has said.

Why is Epstein the top issue in American life right now? Well, in an age in which more and more people get their news from short videos, if you’re in politics, the media or online it pays to focus on topics that are salacious, are easy to understand and allow you to offer self-confident opinions with no actual knowledge.

But the most important reason the Epstein story tops our national agenda is that the QAnon mentality has taken over America. The QAnon mentality is based on the assumption that the American elite is totally evil and that American institutions are totally corrupt. If there is a pizzeria on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C., it must be because Hillary Clinton is running a child abuse sex ring in the basement.

David Brooks, “The Epstein Story? Count me out,” New York Times, Nov. 21, 2025

This was just a month ago, but then the photos of him were released.

Will the Times and PBS put him on leave?

They should, but he is playing the morality card — and has a losing hand.

The Documents cover-up

The Department of Justice was ordered by Congress and the president to provide the Epstein documents to the public. They, however, have not done so within the time frame, but the photos of Brooks and others have been given to the public.

Now, some of this has been redacted and the documents are not clear. They focus on Bill Clinton and tried to take back some information that made Trump look bad. The reality is that this is making Brooks look bad too since he refused to acknowledge that he was involved in this nefarious affair, which the photos provide,

The Epstein case is precious to the QAnon types because here, in fact, was a part of the American elite that really was running a sex abuse ring. So, of course, they leap to the conclusion that Epstein was a typical member of the American establishment, not an outlier. It’s grooming and sex trafficking all the way down. (A previous generation of John Birch Society conspiracists were not content to claim Alger Hiss was a Communist spy, which he was. They also had to insist that President Dwight Eisenhower was a paid Soviet agent.)

Another feature of the QAnon mentality is the conviction that if investigators fail to find evidence to support their febrile imagining, then that is proof that they, too, are part of the cover-up. If the F.B.I. and Justice Department conclude that there was no Epstein client list and there is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed people (as they did conclude), then let’s throw out the rule of law and throw investigations’ raw information onto the internet and let a social media mob sort things out. What could go wrong? … adding

I know a thing or two about the American elite, ahem, and if you’ve read my work, you may be sick of my assaults on the educated elites for being insular, self-indulgent and smug.

David Brooks, “The Epstein Story? Count me out,”

New York Times, Nov. 21, 2025

Yes, Brooks is part of the elite. Smug, gratuitous. He is sick of people like academics and scientists who tell the truth.

Educated elites are being insular, self-indulgent, and smug? Sounds just like Brooks.

Brooks’ defense,

“I never met Epstein. I attended a Ted Conference in 2011 and was invited to an adjacent dinner. There were about 60 people there if memory serves. Apparently Epstein was also at this dinner. I don’t think we met or exchanged a word. I never heard of Epstein until I read a Miami Herald story about him in 2018. I’ve never had any contact with him by email or any other means.”

The New York Times told the Daily Beast in a statement that “As a journalist, David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner.”

The Daily Beast, Dec. 18, 2025

Bottom line: He did not admit to being at the dinner in his inane column, and the Times and PBS should suspend him. Journalists should be duplicitous, and Brooks is.