Donald Trump suddenly raised his own rent, and Stephen Colbert has some questions

Stephen Colbert began Wednesday's Late Show with a look at Donald Trump's interesting new pitch to black and Latino voters. "Yes, blacks, Hispanics, what the hell do you have to lose?" he repeated. "Because you should really hide whatever that is before he becomes president." He wasn't done: "By the way, 'What the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance' is also how Trump proposed to all of his wives."

That wasn't the only Trump news. Colbert noted the five-fold increase in rent at Trump's campaign headquarters, inside Trump's Trump Tower, as soon as campaign donors, not Trump himself, started paying the bills. "A 500 percent rent increase!" he said. "Man, the landlord at Trump Tower must be a real tool." This disclosure, buried in an FEC filing, raises some questions, Colbert said, but "still, it's nice to hear a story about Trump actually paying someone the money he owes them. Sure, it's to Donald Trump, but...." The but is a slightly racy joke. Colbert ended his monologue with new reports about the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton, and Colbert decided to try to buy an interview with Clinton with a $5 bill, after noting that the Clintons have both pleaded their innocence and pledged to wall themselves off from the Foundation if Hillary is elected. "Okay, so there you have it," he said: "They did nothing wrong, and they promise they will never do it again." Watch below. Peter Weber

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