Posted on 08/11/2020 8:11:16 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
CNN White House reporter Jeremy Diamond blasted for 'ridiculously stupid analysis'
A CNN reporter raised eyebrows on Monday with a curious explanation of why President Trump is considering giving his GOP renomination acceptance speech at the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield.
Trump announced on Twitter that he has "narrowed down" the choice of venue for his Aug. 27 remarks to Gettysburg and the White House."
CNN White House correspondent Jeremy Diamond suggested that Trump's potential decision to give the speech at Gettysburg is based on his apparent admiration for the Confederacy.
"We've reported that President Trump is considering his GOP nomination acceptance speech from the White House, but amid some criticism of that potential venue, the president is now floating another one," Diamond reported. "This time he's talking about the hallowed Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but that could be controversial too particularly because this is a President who has consistently positions himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals."
"That's a fair point to make," CNN anchor Pamela Brown responded.
Critics mocked Diamond and questioned his logic since the Confederately famously lost the Battle of Gettysburg, which many historians consider to be a turning point of the Civil War.
"So giving a speech at a battlefield where the Union secured the decisive victory over the Confederacy, somehow honors...the Confederacy?" Trump campaign adviser and former CNN contributor Steve Cortes asked.
"I do not follow the logic here. If Trump's aim was to position himself as a defender of the Confederacy, isn't the site of the Confederacy's most noteworthy military defeat literally the last place he would choose?" Reason senior editor Robby Soave similarly pondered.
"Real brain trust discussion here," radio host Dana Loesch quipped.
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If Trump wanted to signal support for the Confederacy, wouldn’t he go somewhere such as Stone Mountain Georgia instead of Gettysburg????
Let’s see....Who was it that gave the most famous speech at Gettysburg???? Was it a Confederate??? Was it a southerner???
HMMMMMMM????? Who was it????
There is no logic there. The entire political left is one big Wonderland and everyone in it is the Queen of Hearts. Sentence first! Verdict afterwards!
“CNN White House reporter Jeremy Diamond ...”
No.
-—Let’s see....Who was it that gave the most famous speech at Gettysburg???? Was it a Confederate??? Was it a southerner???
HMMMMMMM????? Who was it????-—
The Last Republican that modern Dems have anything nice to say about?
The media is corrupt, period. But just like the corruption in government, it not only continues, it gets worse.
It’s not surprising that a liberal doesn’t know history.
“To a liberal, history began at breakfast this morning.”......Ann Coulter................
Confederates lost at Stone Mtn, too, which led to the burning of Atlanta and Sherman’s march to the sea.
It’s really past time to start clubbing these bastards like baby seals on an ice floe.
Yeah, I know. The weirdos attack him too.
On the idiot reporter about Gettysburg...
For media fools like him the people actually will neither note nor long remember what he says here.
“”Oh, and, my gaydar broke.”””
Come on man! I’m not that gay.
Exactly. A Confederate sympathizer would not select the site the Confederacy’s greatest loss and turning point of the war. By their logic Lincoln was a Confederate sympathizer.
Gettysburg was one of the biggest defeats of the Democrat Party. Jefferson Davis was a Dem Senator.
Four score years from now, students may be memorizing Trump’s Gettysburg Address.
Race card sales person just another CNN sales staff member.
“Let’s see....Who was it that gave the most famous speech at Gettysburg???? Was it a Confederate??? Was it a southerner???
HMMMMMMM????? Who was it????”
I always have a hard time remembering that myself. I think it was The Gettysburg TED Talk by Abigail Lincoln.
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