The Damage Report with John Iadarola

Trump refuses to follow NJ’s quarantine order, with the WH arguing that he’s above the law and “not a civilian.” Although testing is steadily decreasing, Covid-19 cases continue to spike across the country. NYC reports NO protest-related upticks in Covid-19. A Federal Appeals court rules that ALL charges against Michael Flynn must immediately be dropped, no questions asked. Facial recognition soft...

A number of states move to impose a 14-day quarantine on travelers from Covid-19 hotspots. Jamaal Bowman defeats longtime Dem establishment incumbent Eliot Engel. AOC easily defeated her primary challenger “MCC” yesterday, winning with over 70% of the vote. Unsurprisingly, Trump hasn’t been “joking” when it comes to significantly scaling back pandemic prevention measures. Trump won’t stop saying “...

The NYPD Commission claims that the officers who drove their police cars through a crowd of protesters were NOT in violation of their use-of-force policy. Today is election day: is a progressive wave coming? A lady attended a Missouri BLM protest while wielding Confederate flags and telling demonstrators that she will teach her grandkids to hate them. A US soldier is charged after confessing to ha...

Updates on the Breonna Taylor case as one officer involved in her murder is fired. What Juneteenth commemorates and the work for racial justice that still remains to be done. Trump has no idea what Juneteenth is. Trump calls mail-in voting the biggest threat to his re-election, acknowledging that if everyone was allowed to fairly participate, he’d lose. Trump takes fake news to another level. Klob...

SCOTUS rules to protect the DACA program and its current recipients, blocking Trump’s efforts to discontinue the policy and deport Dreamers. Protests around the country have pushed through concrete legislative action in the fight against racial injustice. In a lengthy phone interview with Hannity last night, Trump defended “mistreated” police officers, claimed he personally popularized Juneteenth...

The likelihood of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed soon is relatively small --but Trump doesn’t seem to think so. A night on the town in Jacksonville, Florida unsurprisingly resulted in a newfound Covid-19 outbreak. Tuesday marked the highest single-day total for new Covid-19 cases in Oklahoma, but MAGA isn’t convinced of the risk and still plan on attending Trump’s rally in the state later this...

Trump thinks that if we stop testing for Covid-19, it will literally disappear. Trump will now hold TWO rallies without coronavirus prevention measures in Oklahoma. Rep. Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passes away after contracting Covid-19. Hillary Clinton gets involved in the heated NY-16 race, endorsing Dem establishment incumbent Eliot Engel over progressive Jamaal Bowman. An armed ‘militia’...

On Friday, Atlanta PD murdered Rayshard Brooks for NO reason, shooting him in the back-- TWICE. Today SCOTUS, led by Neil Gorsuch himself, ruled against Trump and confirmed that of course you can’t fire people based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Covid-19 patients are receiving huge medical bills, with some amounting to over a $1 million. When it comes to police brutality, Tru...

MAGA rallies are back but with a twist: Trump is forcing attendees to waive their rights to sue should they contract Covid-19 at the event. While protests were taking place in Chicago, 13 police officers --including 3 supervisors-- were caught napping and eating popcorn in Rep. Bobby Rush’s office. Steve Mnuchin is now refusing to disclose ANY information pertaining to the $660 billion in pandemic...

Trump orders the National Guard to use aggressive tactics against protesters, but internally many speak of being “ashamed” in carrying out his directives. Black Lives Matter’s popularity has soared in just a matter of weeks and has now become the single most favorably viewed political organization in the entire country. 2 million people in the United States have now tested positive for Covid-19. H...

Tucker Carlson and the right-wing claim that pandemic control measures have nothing to do with controlling the pandemic. Trump puts white supremacist Stephen Miller in charge of writing his upcoming “race relations” speech. GA experienced mass voter suppression yesterday as citizens waited in line for hours to cast their ballots. The MA Senate race heats up as progressive incumbent Ed Markey relea...

Trump attacks the 75 year-old peace activist that Buffalo PD pushed to the floor for no reason. NY-16 Dem incumbent Eliot Engel is sad after AOC & Bernie endorse his progressive challenger, Jamaal Bowman. Progressive MA Sen. Ed Markey debates Rep. Kennedy and it didn’t go so well for the establishment contender… Tucker Carlson is the worst human ever. Ben Shapiro needs a safe space because sports...

An armed white man plowed his car through a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle and shot a black protester who was trying to stop the vehicle. House and Senate Democrats unveil new legislation in response to nationwide and international protests against police brutality. Las Vegas has officially reopened, despite Covid-19 cases and deaths spiking back up again in a number of states. All...

Two Buffalo police officers are suspended after the cops are YET AGAIN caught lying thanks to social media; this time seen pushing a 75 year-old man to the ground. Trump’s press conference today featured all types of offensive absurdities, including using George Floyd’s name in vain, attacking black female reporter Yamiche Alcindor about the economy and again rebutting claims that he is a bunker b...

NY-16 Rep. Engel is caught on a hot mic claiming that if he wasn’t being primaried by progressive Jamaal Bowman, he “wouldn’t care.” NYPD ramps up violence against protesters, which included tear-gassing a pregnant woman in her car. The NYT thought it was a good idea to publish an op-ed written by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton, in which Cotton argues that Trump must “send in the troops.” Trump also wants mi...

LAPD Chief Michael Moore tries to blame George Floyd’s murder on those protesting it. Moore then rightly gets publicly blasted for his comments during a live LA Police Commission meeting. Trump and his cronies are still trying to use the ‘Antifa’ excuse to harm peaceful protesters, while the FBI finds “no intel indicating Antifa involvement." Iowa Rep. Steve King, an overt white supremacist, loses...

Trump got scared before his little outing yesterday so he made DC police attack peaceful protesters. Trump then self-proclaimed himself an “ally of all peaceful protesters” while literally tear-gassing a priest to clear the way for his beta male Bible photo sesh. The right-wing falls over themselves praising Trump for the photo op. An independent autopsy report examining George Floyd’s murder conf...

Police forces nationwide deployed extreme violence against those protesting George Floyd’s murder and centuries of police brutality. "Alpha Male" Trump hid in his underground bunker as protests began in front of the White House. Trump has no public response to the wave of protests around the country --but he’s privately telling Governors to arrest protesters and “dominate” them. Trump blames Antif...

Minneapolis demonstrators continue to protest George Floyd’s murder. Trump tweets out something so racist even Twitter had to step in. Trump begins his war on Twitter. MPLS police arrest a CNN crew… while the reporter was live. It’s time to take out the trash! Find out who John, Ana and you (yes, you!!) picked as the Garbage People of the Week. Samelys Lopez LIVE on her run for NY-15 and the impor...

A PA Democratic lawmaker goes on an epic rant after finding out that his GOP counterparts KNEW that some of them had contracted Covid-19 but didn’t tell their colleagues so they could push through anti-lockdown legislation. Trump and Kayleigh McEnany are doing everything in their power to make sure your vote doesn’t count in November. Kellyanne Conway joins in on pushing the anti-vote-by-mail narr...

George Floyd, an innocent black man, is murdered on the streets of Minneapolis by the police; when protests ensued, police shot rubber bullets and tear gas at the unarmed protesters. Twitter attempted to fact-check some of Trump’s tweets and he… lost it. A CNBC debate over the stock market erupted into a giant argument as Andrew Ross Sorkin accused Joe Kernen of ignoring the 100,000 Americans who...

Thousands of Americans ignored stay-at-home orders this weekend to celebrate Memorial Day. Trump and the right-wing’s attempts to spread Covid-19 misinformation have proven largely successful amongst their conservative base. Sr. WH Adviser Kevin Hassett refers to human beings as “capital stock.” During this difficult time, Bloomberg Media is most concerned about rich people being able to reach the...

Trump praises the “good bloodlines” of Henry Ford, a renowned anti-semite who Hitler himself lauded. Trump's obsession with eugenics is a long-standing and extremely worrying one --although not surprising. Joe Biden’s interview on The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne tha God was… strange to say the very least. Fox & Friends’ host Steve Doocy lies trying to defend his and the network's blatant hypoc...

Researchers estimate that 83% of the nation’s deaths could have been avoided had we imposed social distancing measures as early as March 1st. Trump’s total and complete incompetence during intelligence briefings is putting all of our lives at risk. Despite unemployment claims skyrocketing, Trump and McConnell seek to end enhanced unemployment benefits ASAP. GOP officials, QAnon-ers and other right...

CDC officials claim they’ve been "muzzled” by the White House when it comes to the national pandemic response. Trump and the rest of the GOP wants you to believe voting by mail is illegal. Mike Pompeo refused to meet with now-ousted IG Steve Linick concerning the Saudi arms sales investigation. Pompeo has also reportedly been using taxpayer money to fund dozens of extravagant dinners for himself w...