Through it all sat Mr. Cohen, 52, with dark circles under his puffy eyes and awaiting a three-year prison term that begins this spring. When he met Mr. Trump, he knew him as “a real estate giant and an icon” at the center of the action. “Being around Mr. Trump was intoxicating,” he said. “Why did they even bother to swear him in this time?”Republicans on the committee aggressively challenged Mr. Cohen along the same lines. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking Republican, called Mr. Cohen a “fraudster, cheat, convicted felon and, in two months, a federal inmate.”

Source: New York Times February 27, 2019 22:08 UTC