Posted on 06/06/2025 9:48:59 AM PDT by Libloather
CNN’s famed war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, is being mocked for claiming she’s terrified of traveling to the US — and even needs burner phones and other prep “as if I was going to North Korea.”
The British-born journalist, who has covered war zones extensively throughout her career, revealed that she spoke to CNN security and carried a burner phone when she traveled to the US last month to give an address at Harvard University.
“I must say I was afraid. I’m a foreigner. I don’t have a green card. I’m not an American citizen. I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea,” Amanpour said Wednesday on her “The Ex Files” podcast, which she hosted with her ex-husband, James Rubin — a former State Department official.
“I took a burner phone, Jamie. Imagine that, James.”
The anchor, 67, noted she spoke with the lefty network’s security team before setting off to the US after hearing stories of foreigners being stopped for “hours and hours” in the wake of President Trump being elected.
“I even talked to the CNN security person because of this,” she said, saying that she’s heard even “British citizens are being stopped at the border and questioned for hours and hours and hours.”
Amanpour — a renowned foreign correspondent who covered the Iraq, Persian Gulf and Bosnian wars — later acknowledged that her trip went off without a hitch.
“So, huge sigh of relief I breathed, but wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?” she said.
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So is white racist right wing terrorism a threat or isn’t it?
I’ll bet Christiane would love some cheese with her whine.
Sounds to me like she has a guilty conscience.
Nothing happened.
She’s a psychotic leftwing activist who gets worked up over nothing.
And nothing happened.
Which, I guess, is evidence that Orange Man Bad.
Was this woman ever a real journalist? She’s not now and if she ever was it was a very long time ago.
Morons do not know that immigration has been questioning and detaining people at airports forever abs for so kind of reasons.
And when they see a reason, they can be tough about it.
Zero to do with Trump.
Idiot would feel safer if she entered a country that didn’t screen for terrorists?
THIS from the woman who covers her head in muslim countries.
Well, CHRISTINE. What would happen to you if you didn’t?
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Yeah... it’s just like North Korea. Idiot...
Or even if she does, what happens when her reporting insults someone’s “honor” in the Mideast.
so stupid it would make sense not to believe a word out of her mouth.
Old school CNN comrade and drama queen Amanpour is repping the socialist democrat party line: “Trump’s Amerika is Nazis!”
Exotic thirty years ago, bizarre now. Retire, witch.
There are portions of blue cities that I would not want to travel to.
“I scared of the white men out in the countryside!”
Maybe she should move to Iran
She may have a point; she’d probably get a much better reception in NK than she would in the US.
A college friend of JFK Jr. and formerly married to a Clinton/Obama advisor. Her politics are pretty obvious.
Afraid she will be accused of carrying the Ugly Virus into the country?
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