CNN took aim at Margarita Simonyan amid US sanctions against Russian media
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 in 1998, while he was a State Department spokesman. They divorced in 2018. She acknowledged their previous relationship on Monday’s show, but said she had him on as the head of the GEC.
“The leader of that station admits they’re doing exactly what Russia’s president wants them to do, which is to use disinformation to try to divide our countries, to use disinformation,” Rubin told his ex-wife.
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