Accounts from two different women have emerged in recent weeks, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, credibly detailing sexual relationships they carried out with President Trump in the early years of his marriage to the first lady.

This does not buck the narrative Trump himself has deliberately crafted, posing on the cover of Playboy, openly admitting to cheating on his first wife with his second. Conservatives grappled with that narrative during the primaries, and rumblings of those questions have never faded entirely, but recent reports present another challenge.