Trump Furious with Jeanine Pirro; Buttigieg Goes Far Left | 8/6/26 FIRST LOOK

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Hey, everybody, I'm Dave AI, and this is First Look. It's Thursday, August 6th, 2026 We've got a packed show for you today.
Pete Buttigieg says he totally wants to scrap the Electoral College as a matter of basic, fundamental fairness. Joining Kamala Harris and a growing list of Democrats who are openly targeting the constitutional system, the founders designed to protect the Republic. Inside Jeanine Pirro's dramatic about face on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case, charges against Olympic athlete David Hearn dropped after career prosecutors and Interior Department records pointed to a botched installation under President Trump's 250th birthday beautification project, leaving Trump furious and Pirro's job on the line.
Shirtless Tom Holland in Spider-Man Brand New Day has men online asking whether physique inflation is real as Hollywood superhero standards keep climbing and everyday guys feel the pressure. Let's dive in. First up, the latest Democrat assault on the Constitution. In an interview with Politico's Jonathan Martin, Pete Buttigieg, the former Transportation Secretary, Mayor of Indianapolis, and another 2028 White House hopeful, was asked point blank whether he would scrap the Electoral College. His answer was immediate and enthusiastic. Totally. Yeah, of course.
He continued, I mean, this is one where just as a matter of basic fundamental fairness, I don't see how you get to the idea that any one voter should have a greater vote than another voter.
Martin pressed him on whether such big-ticket reforms were realistic, even in a 5 or 10 year window, noting that abolishing the Electoral College would require an act of Congress and a constitutional amendment. Buttigieg didn't flinch. He framed the idea as part of a larger platform of sweeping changes, urging Democrats to take big swings the way Republicans did with Project 2025, while admitting the Electoral College fight would be a long shot. This is not some fringe activist talking. Buttigieg is widely viewed as one of the more moderate faces in the 2028 field. His comments came just days after Kamala Harris told supporters, I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular. We need to revisit the Electoral College. The Electoral College was deliberately established by the founding fathers in the late 1700s precisely to prevent pure majoritarian rule and to give smaller states a meaningful voice in electing the president. That architecture is not a bug, it is a feature of the federal republic they designed. Yet here we are. Buttigieg and Harris are only the latest mainstream Democrats to jump on the abolish the Electoral College bandwagon. Their calls for foundational change still look restrained next to the wilder voices in the party who have demanded the Senate and the presidency be abolished, the Supreme Court replaced, American borders erased, and the Pentagon defunded. But make no mistake, this is a coordinated strategy across the Democratic spectrum heading into 2028 Chip away at the constitutional order that has constrained progressive power for more than two centuries, and it doesn't stop at the Electoral College. The candidate currently leading Democrats for the Wisconsin governor nomination wants the United States to cancel Thanksgiving. The holiday that dates to 1621 was designated a National Day of Thanks by George Washington in 1789 and was made a federal holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
When the party's moderates are targeting the Electoral College and its radicals are targeting Thanksgiving, you know the project is cultural and constitutional at the same time.
Next, the messy fallout over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and US. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Last month, Pirro stepped to a lectern and declared with total confidence that her office would prove former Olympian David Hearn had vandalized the Reflecting Pool. Hearn, a 67-year-old three-time Olympic whitewater canoe racer, was indicted after National Park Service employees claimed they saw him forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands, damaging a two-square-foot section of sealant. Behind the public certainty, career prosecutors had already raised private doubts about bringing a felony case, according to the Wall Street Journal, and people familiar with the internal discussions. In recent weeks, those prosecutors pushed harder for dismissal after the Interior Department produced information identifying what Pirro's office now calls the true culprit, the shoddy installation of a lining ordered as part of President Trump's plan to beautify the landmark in time for America's 250th birthday. Those misgivings exploded into public view Friday, with an extraordinary court filing that dropped all charges against Hearn. The filing stated that a rushed and botched installation caused the damage, and that a recent inspection showed damage throughout the Reflecting Pool, even in the middle of the pool, where a vandal would not likely attempt to peel the lining. Pirro's office went further, writing, Had the Interior Department been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment, and that the agency's failure to fully and accurately provide information undermined prosecutors' legal obligations, including discovery to the defense. President Trump was not amused. He said Pirro choked. On Monday, with her job clearly in jeopardy, Pirro arrived at the White House carrying a box of documents for a meeting with the president and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. According to people familiar with the session, the meeting was tense. Pirro placed the blame on Burgum and the contractor hired to refinish the pool. At one point, she accused Burgum of misleading Trump. Burgum defended himself. Trump listened to both sides and did not fire her or demand her resignation on the spot. Still, people close to the president say it is too early to call her job safe. Trump remains angry that a longtime ally publicly undercut him.