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CNN journalist mocked for saying she’s ‘afraid’ to travel to the US: ‘As if I was going to North Korea’ (Amanpour)
NY Post ^ | 6/06/25 | Emily Crane

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: adolftrumpler; certainlynotnews; christianeamanpour; clintonnonnews; cnn; dumberthandanrather; emilycrane; journalist; korea; literallyhitler; madnessofcrowds; newyorkpost; talkingheadtards; travel; trumpishitler; whatsthefreqchris
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To: Libloather

I imagine if you come in carrying three burner phones, someone is going to ask why.

Travel light, Christine.


21 posted on 06/06/2025 10:16:58 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Libloather

Oh yeah, the woman who graduated from the University of Rhode Island, worked in Atlanta for CNN, and was married to New Yorker and Clinton puppet-master James Rubin. Terrified of Americans, I’m sure.


22 posted on 06/06/2025 10:18:48 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Libloather

She has reason to be butthurt.


23 posted on 06/06/2025 10:19:42 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: Libloather

“Christiane Amanpour, international correspondent and sophisticated journalist.” Alex Christoforou, mocking Amanpour.


24 posted on 06/06/2025 10:22:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Libloather

Paranoia will destroy ya, Chrissy. You can blame the ridiculous behavior of the media for it. That’d be the face you see in the mirror.


25 posted on 06/06/2025 10:25:56 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

Probably cannot tolerate a long flight without cigarettes.
War slut should go to Ukraine, they are her type.


26 posted on 06/06/2025 10:26:16 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Libloather
Well, this is the kind of crap that happens when one party chooses deliberately to undermine immigration law and admit millions of people illegally.

The eventual reaction to that is going to be a b*tch.

27 posted on 06/06/2025 10:28:46 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Libloather

Gee maybe now she knows how Jews feel when they travel the world and get spit on for being Jewish..maybe now she knows what its like to be a Jew in America, being set on fire by her ilk


28 posted on 06/06/2025 10:30:01 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Libloather
I've gone to Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, etc. and would go to Myanmar (on the rebel side), no problem. But I have greater qualms about going to a failed state like the UK or repressive regime states like Germany or France where you are liable to be jailed for saying the wrong thing or crossing the government.

Heck, even Canada is off limits for me. Last time I went there on vacation I was ticketed by a corrupt cop scamming tourists north of Banff.

29 posted on 06/06/2025 10:37:57 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Libloather

She should be mocked for being a dolt.


30 posted on 06/06/2025 10:38:32 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going bac)
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To: Libloather

Something tells me she’d enjoy her time in a women’s prison.
Just a hunch.


31 posted on 06/06/2025 10:39:47 AM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Libloather

Christine, Christine, if you come in through a port of entry there is no need to worry. Were you planning on coming to the USA via the Rio Grande river entry? If so, that would explain your trauma and preparation.


32 posted on 06/06/2025 10:45:20 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Libloather

Don’t come. We’ll all be much happier.


33 posted on 06/06/2025 10:48:25 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

That pig was on a flight I was on out of Zurich. Standing up telling people to switch seats. Making a spectacle of herself. She is possibly the ugliest looking “woman” I have ever seen.


34 posted on 06/06/2025 10:48:54 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Libloather

i agree

its not worth the hassle

she should stay away


35 posted on 06/06/2025 10:56:47 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Libloather

Need hip boots for this one.


36 posted on 06/06/2025 10:58:18 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Libloather

Hey, that’s easy. Go to North Korea instead. No problem.


37 posted on 06/06/2025 11:06:18 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: jjotto

Maybe shes thinking about how her past terrorist sympathies may come back to haunt her….


38 posted on 06/06/2025 11:14:52 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Billthedrill
Paranoia will destroy ya, Chrissy. You can blame the ridiculous behavior of the media for it. That’d be the face you see in the mirror.

David Bowie did a vid about that very paranoia leading to delusions, coincidentally named:

"I'm Afraid of Americans"

At least she doesn't have Trent Reznor chasing her around.

39 posted on 06/06/2025 11:31:48 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Socialists are impure Communists who love counting money too much. Especially yours.)
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I’m not an American citizen.

There's your first problem. Please have your paperwork in order.

40 posted on 06/06/2025 11:58:22 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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