Dr. Robert Epstein on politics: what the evidence says · JRE #1768

What the evidence says 01 / RECORD

Federal Election Commission records, searchable directly at fec.gov, show that individuals who self-report Google or Alphabet as their employer have donated to federal candidates and committees overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats across multiple election cycles. Independent analyses of these FEC filings have put the Democratic share of Alphabet/Google-affiliated employee donations at roughly 80-90% in most cycles, with 2016 commonly cited as a peak year at approximately 94%; figures near 96% have also circulated for individual cycles or narrower subsets of Google-specific giving. Epstein's 94-96% figure falls within the range documented in FEC-based analyses, though "all donations out of Google" is an imprecise framing: the underlying data reflects self-reported individual contributions from employees using various Google and Alphabet subsidiary employer names, not a single official corporate donation total, and the exact share fluctuates by year and by which subsidiaries are counted. The claim is broadly consistent with publicly available federal campaign finance data, but the specific percentage should be treated as an approximation drawn from third-party analysis rather than a single precise, official statistic.