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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If she's afraid, she sure doesn't show it.
From the pics I saw, she better put the pedal to the metal.
Unless you have ever watched CNN International, you have never heard the real Amanpour.
I heard her in ‘97 in Israel.
Hyper anti Israel
She’ll be just fine!
IF SHE STAYS AWAY FROM DEMOCRAT CITIES AND STATES!
Yesterday I saw a video which claimed that most of the cops in North Korea are female. I’m guessing Ms. Amanpour would like that.
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