CNN Does Stunning Interview With Witness Who Backs Up Anti-Trump DA Fani Willis On Cash Claims

CNN tracked down a witness who backs up key claims by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — and scored an exclusive interview against a truly stunning background.

Last week, Willis took the witness stand in a hearing over a challenge brought by one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election crimes case that seeks to have Willis removed for an alleged conflict of interest.

A key point in the case against disqualifying Willis is that she did not financially benefit from her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade because she repaid him with cash for shared expenses.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN News Central, CNN correspondent Zachary Cohen told anchor Kate Bolduan that Stan Brody — who was estate ambassador for Acumen Wines when Willis and Wade visited the winery together last year — backed up the prosecutor’s testimony.

He then played a clip of an interview that did just that — but which also drew comment from the anchors about that comical background:

KATE BOLDUAN: You spoke with this host. What did he tell you?

ZACH COHEN: Yeah. When Fani Willis took the stand last week, she argued there was no financial benefit that she received from her relationship with Nathan Wade because at the end of the day, they effectively split the cost of these vacations that have come out in these allegations against her.

And that includes a trip to Napa Valley in 2023. And that’s where my interview with Stan Brody comes into play here.

Stan worked at the winery at the time, and he hosted Fani Willis and Nathan Wade that day. And he said, he recalls, when the bill came. Fani Willis not only picked up the check, but she paid in cash almost $400 in cash, which struck him as odd.

But take a listen to what he told me about that encounter with Fani Willis and Nathan Wade last year.

STAN BRODY: I ran up to saying, and I showed her, I was expecting a credit card, quite frankly. And, no, she says, “I’ll pay cash.”

And so that was that. So then I just put the cash in, made change for her. And she was very generous to me.

ZACH COHEN: So Stan was apparently in outer space when we did our interview.

But his — what he said, it actually does relate and is important to the in the context of the case in Georgia. Because look, without — when you pay cash there’s no paper trail. And that is a sticking point for the judge who is weighing whether or not to disqualify Fani Willis over this issue of whether or not she benefited financially.

And sources I’ve talked to say that if Fani Willis is thrown off the case, it will effectively end any hope of prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia.

KATE BOLDUAN: Great reporting, Zach, thank you so much. And we do all love a creative zoom background.

Watch above via CNN News Central.