In the four days since former congressman Beto O’Rourke announced his run for the 2020 Democratic nomination, he has done a lot of apologizing. The Daily Show host Trevor Noah thinks he needs to stop.

Noah called it “ridiculous” that O’Rourke is being criticized for elements of his past, like the fact that he was part of a hacking collective or that he once wrote violent fiction. “What’s next?” he asked. “Are we going to arrest George R.R. Martin? ‘That man’s a monster, he killed thousands!’ No, he’s a monster because he refuses to finish those books!”