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 to hurry to assure us that his was not at all about currying favor with Donald Trump.

“I don’t think this is in any way a partisan activity,” Dell told the New York Times.