CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has accused RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan of being an international troll, while interviewing her ex-husband and State Department official Jamie Rubin about the latest US sanctions against Russian media.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new sanctions against RT last week, accusing the outlet of “functioning as a de facto arm of Russian intelligence” and alleging its management attempted to influence the 2024 US presidential election.
Rubin is currently the head of the Global Engagement Center, an outfit created in 2016 to fight foreign “propaganda and disinformation efforts.” He presented the case against RT to reporters at a press conference on Friday, and to Amanpour on her show Monday.
“CNN is in a frenzy over RT,” Simonyan said in a Telegram post on Tuesday, commenting on the telecast. “Christiane Amanpour interviewed her ex-husband about our perfidy and called me an ‘expert troller’.”
Amanpour married Rubin…