Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned last week amid revelations that he had potentially illegal contacts with the Russian ambassador and gave misleading statements to senior administration officials about it. The Post reported the Justice Department had warned the White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail.

“There is no hard proof yet of direct links between Trump himself and Russia, but he does have a weird, noticeably soft spot for both the country and its leader,” Oliver said. “It’s a bit weird that you’ve been objectively nicer to Vladimir Putin than you have to Meryl Streep, who I’m pretty sure is not an infamous autocrat — although you know what, now I say it, if she’d tried it, she’d nail it, the woman is a tour de force.”

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While Oliver and his team typically explore more obscure policy issues on his weekly HBO show, the focus this season thus far has been Trump. Last week, Oliver focused on truth and the falsehoods the president and his surrogates have propagated.

Oliver explained what it’ll be like to tackle Trump to Stephen Colbert in an interview earlier this month. “We have a long way to go. It’s gonna be hard. It’s easy to be angry on adrenaline, but it is much, much harder when you’re tired. And this is going to be exhausting.”

This week, Oliver laid out how Putin maintains control in Russia, from faking sex tapes to embarrassing political opponents to targeting journalists. He also highlighted how Putin reacts to criticism of his country — by deflecting it back on the United States and its problems.

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“Imagine how he happy he was to see the president of the United States take his moral equivalence argument, and just run with it,” Oliver said, referring to how Trump responded to Bill O’Reilly’s declaration that “Putin’s a killer.”

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“There’s a lot of killers,” Trump told O’Reilly this month. “We got a lot of killers. What, you think our country’s so innocent?”

Oliver’s take: “Trump is basically the propagandist of Putin’s dreams, and who knows why he’s acting this way.”

And then Oliver used some musical help to get through to Trump — namely, a cheesy techno Russian song that praises the Russian president called “A Man Like Putin.”

“It’s all about how women want someone like him,” Oliver said. “That means they want a man in his 60s who has thinning hair and who’s probably about 5-foot-5. So the man they’re saying they want is essentially Richard Dreyfuss, but mean.”

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So the “Last Week Tonight” crew reworked the lyrics and rolled out white spandex-clad performers to enthusiastically dance along.

“Beware of Putin, he’s ruthless and shrewd,” they sang. “If you’re not careful, we’ll all end up screwed.”