Stephen Colbert marvels over the excuse from a Trump fan yelling anti-Semitic slurs at rally
Stephen Colbert began Wednesday's Late Show monologue noting that polls are tight in the presidential race, then mentioned that Donald Trump is urging Hillary Clinton supporters to change their votes — which is apparently something you can do in some states. Colbert was having none of it. "I don't know what you learned as a kid, but no fair changies," he said. "No backsies. You vote, you're stuck with it. It's like a tattoo." Trump is also selling spots on his donor wall — though before you send Trump your $49, read Dana Milbank's story in The Washington Post of how Trump "stiffed" him. "That's right — Donald Trump is building a wall and making his donors pay for it," Colbert said.
Colbert then turned to Trump supporters, and one in particular. "Sometimes one bad apple makes all of the other apples seem racist," he said, cueing up that video of the guy at a Trump rally yelling "Jew-S-A!" "It is absolutely horrible to hear that sort of anti-Semitic language," he said. "Usually you just read it in Yahoo comments." But a newspaper tracked the man down, and he explained that he wasn't yelling "Jew-S-A" but rather trying to make the Mexicans in the crowd feel better about their accents and he was "just horsing around" when he said "the Jews run the country." "I'm going to call this the worst excuse of all time," Colbert said.
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