Jon Stewart suggests Biden is using mafia-like tactics to silence 'productive' conversations

Comedian Jon Stewart criticized the Democratic Party, President Biden and the White House for what he compared to Trump's mafia-style refusal to answer concerns about the president's debate performance.

Stewart was joined by former Obama aides and Pod Save America co-hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor on "The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart" on Thursday, where he said the Biden administration’s approach to concern was like Omertà, a Sicilian code of silence used by the mafia, which places importance on staying quiet in the face of questioning.

"In a lot of ways using Omertà, as Tommy put it, to stifle what could be an incredibly productive, at least, conversation, even if Joe Biden came out and said, ‘Look, I understand where I am at in my lifespan and cycle and what I do. Here’s how this government works,'" Stewart said, in a clip flagged by Mediaite. "Rather than coming out, and becoming Trumpian and saying, ‘You think someone else could hold NATO together, they could never, only God can tell me to get out of the race.’"

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Stewart went on that nothing the White House has done inspires any confidence in Biden's ability to serve as president.

"If he were to come out and say, ‘Here’s my team, here is how we hold the line,' but we're not seeing any of that. Nothing that's been done inspires any confidence, other than the fatalism of, ‘It is what it is and this is what we're stuck with,' and that's the part that I think has degraded people's trust in institutions and the government from the get-go. That's a problem," he added.

Stewart has been outspoken about his anger toward Democrats and the White House for excusing