Michael Dell’s $6.25bn gift spotlights how the super-rich use ‘charity’ to win access, favour and influence Michael Dell’s $6.25bn gift spotlights how the super-rich use ‘charity’ to win access, favour and influence Pity the billionaire class. The 0.001% are so unpopular these days that when tech billionaire Michael Dell and his wife announced the donation of $6.25bn into the “Trump Accounts” of 25 million children, one of the largest single philanthropic donations in American history, Dell had