On Friday’s episode of “The Jim Bakker Show,” Texas pastor Ramiro Peña alleged that the late Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was the one who transferred thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks, citing a retracted Fox News story and a self-identified private investigator named Rod Wheeler, who has since recanted his claims.

Peña claimed that Rich, who was murdered last year in Washington, D.C., was behind the massive leak and it “was not a hack by the Russians.” He said that the news that Trump had revealed highly classified information to Russian officials during a White House meeting was “fake news” meant to distract from the finding that Rich was “assassinated” as part of a DNC cover-up.

Peña, a Donald Trump campaign booster and a member of the president’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, cited Wheeler and Fox News to back up his contention, despite the fact that both Fox News and Wheeler, the supposed investigator, retracted their stories. Ironically, Peña repeatedly said “shame on you, media” while pushing his debunked claims on Bakker’s show.

Several conservatives, including Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Roger Stone, Jay Sekulow and Alex Jones, have pushed the conspiracy theory ever since Wheeler, a frequent Fox News guest, told Fox’s Washington affiliate that a high-level source in the government had confirmed that Rich transferred the DNC emails to WikiLeaks.

However, Wheeler later said that he never once spoke to any government source or viewed any evidence linking Rich to WikiLeaks, telling Newsweek, “I’ve never, ever seen Seth Rich’s computer, nor have I talked with the federal investigator.” It was also revealed that Wheeler is not actually a licensed private investigator and was being paid by a conservative commentator.

The Rich family has strongly denied Wheeler’s story. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, his parents described how they learned that their son’s death was likely a botched robbery and shared the terrible effect right-wing conspiracy theories have had on their family. While many conservatives baselessly alleged that Rich contacted WikiLeaks because he was a disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporter, his family said that he was considering taking a job with the Hillary Clinton campaign and noted that his DNC job wouldn’t have allowed him such close access to emails belonging to other staffers anyway.