Rep. Dan Crenshaw spoke with HBO’s Bill Maher Friday night to discuss the country’s fight against Coronavirus; saying the comedian’s criticism is solely based on President Trump’s “optimism” in recent weeks.

‘You apparently had the foresight back then when no one else did… If Joe Biden was in charge he wouldn’t have done it. Nancy Pelosi proposed legislation to stop it,” said Crenshaw.

Bill Maher gets REKT without the high production spell that is Hollywood. No phony studio audience to save him. Great job by @DanCrenshawTX. pic.twitter.com/FWBgGsYJnO — Austen Fletcher (@fleccas) April 19, 2020

“Your criticism appears to be based in one thing: Trump was overly optimistic. That’s his style… We’re in a fact-finding mode in February, people forget this,” he added. “The reality is our government was working… By March 3rd there was only 102 cases in the United States, yet I’m hearing criticism that we should have been locked down weeks earlier. You think the American people would have accepted that?”

Watch Maher’s comments above.