“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver said on Sunday that Fox News host Sean Hannity had come up with the worst conspiracy theory ever to defend President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE.

Hannity, in discussing the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer they'd been told could offer damaging information on then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE, referenced on his show this past week a May 18 Daily Caller story that said a Russian-American lobbyist who participated in the meeting claimed to personally know Clinton.

“So let me get this straight: You seem to be implying Hillary Clinton sent someone into Trump Tower to offer her opponent dirt on herself,” Oliver said. “You know what? Congratulations, Sean Hannity, you’ve officially come up with the shittiest conspiracy theory ever.”

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“They aren’t really interested in getting to the bottom of any of these questions, they’re trying to sow enough doubt that this number dips far enough below 50 percent to allow the whole investigation to be shut down. They are just working the jury,” Oliver said.

The Russian lobbyist Hannity mentioned reportedly told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had contact with Clinton’s inner circle and that he knew the then-candidate as well.

“I knew [Clinton]; I knew some people who worked on her campaign,” Rinat Akhmetshin said in closed-door testimony in November, according to The Daily Caller.

The Trump Tower meeting took place after Rob Goldstone, an associate of Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move to cancel racial sensitivity training at federal agencies Trump International Hotel in Vancouver closes permanently MORE, told him that a Russian government attorney, now identified as Natalia Veselnitskaya, had dirt on Clinton.

“If it is what you say, I love it,” Trump Jr. wrote to Goldstone.

Akhmetshin attended the Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya and is a person of interest in the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.