CNN's Jeremy Diamond claims without evidence that Trump might have his speech in Gettysburg because he loves the Confederacy: "This is a President who has consistently positions himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals."

DIAMOND: But that can be controversial too, particularly because this is a President who has consistently positions [sic] himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals.

PAM BROWN: Yeah, that's a fair point to make.

Jeremy also did this in the 1:00 p.m. Eastern hour, even conceding that Gettysburg was a place where the Confederacy lost, but it's still controversial because Trump the Confederacy. This is brought to you by the same news media that's asked whether he's okay the North won.

DIAMOND: Of course, that would be a pretty notable pick given the fact that the President, over the last couple of months, as we have seen these protests over Black Lives Matter and racism in the United States, the President has taken to defending Confederate generals... (1/2)

...so he would, you know, be taking — giving a speech for his accepting the nomination here at a site where the Confederates, of course, lost that battle. But we are told as of now that the White House has been the kind of primary contender for this." (2/2)

Now, I'm seeing a few of you push back for how I characterized what Jeremy said. I stand by it because what he's doing here is implying that Trump would be giving a speech at/near to Confederate statues and it would feed their narrative that he has an affinity for them.

As @TimJGraham noted here in the newsroom, Trump could give his acceptance speech from Farragut North metro station and Jeremy Diamond would still say it's "controversial."