Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday condemned the candidates in the GOP presidential field for rallying around former President Donald Trump after he was charged with 37 felonies related to classified documents he moved from the White House to his home at the end of his term.

“It’s absurd that candidates won’t stand up and say that these are very serious charges, we need to take them seriously, and, you know, if you are not going to challenge him, why challenge him?” Hogan, a Republican who declined to enter the presidential race, said during a panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week.”

“You’ve got 11, 12 challengers out there that aren’t challenging him, and they’re, you know, sort of enablers and just making excuses,” Hogan said, noting that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson — both of whom have openly bashed the former president over the indictment — were excluded from that count.