Donald Trump "is already floating the conspiracy theory that the election might be rigged, and who knows? He could be right," Stephen Colbert said, mysteriously, on Wednesday's Late Show. "Because I heard that millions of Americans are planning to use a secret ballot." Trump and other Republicans have also been pushing the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton is ill, and Colbert played an amusing clip of Karl Rove laying out the theory with the help of whiteboards on Fox News earlier this week. "Oh my god," Colbert said, "Hillary's illness has already spread to Megyn Kelly, causing her vertical blindness in one eye, and uncontrollable giggles, evidently."
But that was just the beginning, the intro to a new segment. "Welcome to the Truth Bunker," Colbert said, "where I share the secret truths they don't want you to know and I actually don't know." He had one Clinton health theory, then said, "Okay, enough politics — that's what they want us to talk about." And the rest of his conspiracies are mostly just conspiracy jokes — you can watch them below. Peter Weber
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