However, in THIS case, I'm tempted to believe there's more than a grain of truth to it:

Fox Poll: "More Than Half of Republicans Don't Want Trump as Nominee"

More than half of likely Republican voters would like someone other than Donald Trump to be their party's presidential nominee. That's according to a new Fox News poll released Wednesday, which asked who those voters would prefer the win the GOP nomination. Just 48 percent said they would prefer Trump to "someone else," while 51 percent said they would prefer someone else." And just 74 percent of the Republicans polled said they would vote for Trump if the election were held right now.

That lack of support from Republican voters might partially explain Trump's two-month dip in Fox's poll against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In the new survey, conducted from Sunday to Tuesday, Clinton had 44 percent support to Trump's 38 percent. He's down 7 points from 45 percent in Fox's May poll, which actually had Trump beating Clinton by 3 points.

While Clinton has remained relatively steady since May at 42 percent, Trump does not appear to have recovered from his decline in an early June Fox poll down to 39 percent support. Clinton, meanwhile, gets the support of 83 percent of Democrats. Trump does edge out Clinton among independent voters, 39 percent to 31 percent. [….]

H/T: The Weekly Standard, June 29, 2016

RS Reader:
There is no reason to give this candidate a dime. I think the big money PACs and contributors know this. […]

RS Reader:
ROFLOL! This is just Don the Con being the liar that he is and will always be. […]

DemocraticUnderground Reader:
One could almost pity his blank-eyed followers, if not for the fact they do so mainly out of hating their fellow Americans. For that, they will be crushed, and we should thank them. […]

"Donald Trump Has Not Forgiven Campaign Loans And Probably Won’t"

One of the major stumbling blocks in Donald Trump's ability to raise money from deep-pocket donors, other than his lethal combination of sloth and arrogance, has been his carrying as a "loan" to his campaign some $50 million. By carrying it as a loan rather than a contribution, Trump would be legally able to take the money other people give him in order to pay himself back. Many rich people are understandably reluctant to put their money, money which they intended to support Trump's campaign, into the gaping, insatiable maw that Donald Trump calls a pocket.

Only a week ago, the Trump campaign made a huge announcement that he had converted that debt into a contribution. My colleague, Susan Wright, posted on the announcement and she speculated, as did most of the RedState contributors, that Trump was, in fact, lying. If he claimed to convert the debt to a contribution… which is literally as hard as checking off a single box on one FEC report… he could collect contributions leading up to the convention, pocket them before the next report, and then confront the GOP with a broke campaign that they had to fundraise for. In other words, we were speculating that this was the quintessential Trumpian con wrapped in a scam wrapped in a deception.

Guess what?

[ A week later, NBC News has learned the FEC has posted no record of Trump converting his loans to donations. The Trump Campaign has also declined requests to share the legal paperwork required to execute the transaction, though they suggest it has been submitted.

In his most recent FEC filing, which posted June 20, Trump treated all his spending on the campaign as loans.

An FEC staff member tells NBC News there is no new filing changing Trump's loans. The FEC's candidate tracking page, which posts filings, does not show new paperwork from Trump changing his loans. ]

When does the GOP convention kick off? July 18. By the time the FEC report is released, Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee.

This is no different that the way Trump acted in regards to his "contribution" to veterans charities, or charities in general. He claims to give and doesn't follow through with action unless, as in the case of the veterans fundraising scam, he is caught and shamed into doing it. [….] RedState

NBC News: "After Saying He Forgave Loans to Campaign, Trump Won't Release Proof"

"Amid Campaign Worries, Trump Heads To Scotland To Check On His Golf Courses"

NEW YORK (AP) — Facing questions about meager fundraising, slipping poll numbers and campaign instability, Donald Trump is tending to business — in Scotland.

In his first international trip since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, Trump plans to check on a pair of his championship golf resorts. Some Republicans worry that the billionaire's attention is divided between his businesses and his campaign "I'm not sure what the purpose of the trip is," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., who added that he hopes Trump "would get back here quickly."

Trump's son, Eric, who oversaw the two-year, more than $300 million renovation at the Trump Turnberry golf course, dismissed those concerns, saying "the eyes of the world" will be on his father during a two-day stay in Scotland that begins Friday.

"The Turnberry course is one of the crown jewels of the golf world and is now one of the crown jewels of our family's properties," Eric Trump said this week in an interview with The Associated Press. "He's over there to inspect the course and to support his son who put a tremendous amount of time and energy into the project."

Trump's first stop Friday morning will be in Turnberry, which is nestled along Scotland's western rocky coast and has been in use for more than a century. The site, which Trump bought in 2014, has hosted four British Open championships, was used as an airplane landing strip during both world wars and features a lighthouse that stands on the ruins of a 13th century castle.

He will visit another course he owns, in Aberdeen, on Saturday before returning to the United States after just 36 hours.

"It's a brief but important visit and then he will be back on the campaign trail," Eric Trump said. [….]

H/T: TPM

TPM reader:
Yeah, and if he speaks to a single reporter while there, this is all a "campaign stop," billable to the campaign.

Anyone who donates money to the Trump campaign is what's known in the business as "an easy mark." […]

ROTFL @ failure at life. You got me crying over here. But yeah, he is more than just the Repub nominee. He's the leader of the whole party now.