Trump Explains How He'd Bribe Delegates, If He Were Into That Sort of Thing

On Sunday, two days before the crucial New York primary, frontrunner Republican candidate Donald Trump took a moment to tell the New York Times what he thought about the state of the delegate selection process: Easily corruptible.

“Look, nobody has better toys than I do,” he told reporters at a hotel on Staten Island, where he pressed his case that the system was rigged against him. “I can put them in the best planes and bring them to the best resorts anywhere in the world.”

But Mr. Trump said that was unseemly.

“You’re basically buying these people,” he added. “You’re basically saying, ‘Delegate, listen, we’re going to send you to Mar-a-Lago on a Boeing 757, you’re going to use the spa, you’re going to this, you’re going to that, we want your vote.’ That’s a corrupt system.”

It’s fascinating that Trump would find fault in this particular method of giving, given that only last week the Washington Post reported he’d been donating free rounds of golf and parcels of land to charities instead of actual cash. Though there is a vast chasm of difference between wooing donors and distributing your wealth among the needy, Trump is always ready and able to dole out amenities when he sees fit. If elections are good for anything, it’s showing just how grey our beloved candidate’s grey areas can get.