&gt; In (1), it clearly hasn&#x27;t worked then given all of the comments around here. Is it not highly likely that he would have considered this backlash that he received? If I was in his position and wanted to achieve (1), I would make a high profile donation of ~$1 billion (~2% of his worth) to a respectable charity.<p>Most people think he gave the money to charity. They will notice this isn&#x27;t the case when the &quot;charity&quot; has amassed 5x its current value and he&#x27;s donating 10B to someone&#x27;s political campaign.