Article snippet: MORE’s troubles with women are multiplying, with three lawsuits distracting from his agenda and potentially bringing legal peril. The lawsuits also create the prospect of Trump being deposed, potentially exposing him to embarrassing lines of questioning and to the risk of perjury. The White House says it is the women who are lying. More broadly, the administration cites the president’s 2016 election win as evidence that allegations about his personal behavior have already been adjudicated by the electorate. “On the one hand, you have the possibility of money laundering with Russian oligarchs. At the other end of the spectrum, you have payoffs with Playboy models,” said conservative commentator Charlie Sykes, a Trump critic. “Is this presidency tragedy or farce? It’s sometimes hard to tell.” The most high-profile case is porn star Stormy Daniels’s, who was paid $130,000 by Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in the closing stretch of the 2016 campaign. She says that deal was done to buy her silence about an affair with Trump a decade prior. In addition, a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, is also taking legal action to free herself from an agreement restricting her ability to speak about an affair she says she had with Trump in 2006. And Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” got a legal boost on Tuesday. A judge in a New York state court ruled that Zervos’s defamation case against Trump could move forward, rebuffing arguments to ... Link to the full article to read more