As the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm continues to engulf the Donald Trump White House, The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky pointed out that there is renewed interest in accusations made about the president years ago that have been lying dormant.

In his column delving into Trump’s inability to understand why he is not receiving across-the-board adulation for his policies during his second term, the longtime political observer wrote that the reportedly “frustrated Trump…wonders why he’s not more popular. He complains, we read, that he’s accomplished a great deal and that he’s keeping his campaign promises, and looked at a certain way, these statements are true, to a point. So he can’t figure out why he’s at 37 percent.”

Calling Trump a “sleazeball,” Tomasky bluntly stated, “… his policies are horrible, and people don’t like them,” before adding, “the Jeffrey Epstein matter is Exhibit A, of course, but there is much more. The way he and his family are getting rich from the presidency is just obscene.”

With regard to Trump’s well-documented relationship with the convicted pedophile, Tomasky pointed to an accusation made by a woman who filed a lawsuit years ago using the name “Katie Johnson,’” that the journalist admitted is uncorroborated.

Nonetheless, he wrote, “…. it’s Epstein that is catching up with him. And that story is a long, long way from being over. We cannot of course at this point state that Trump is guilty of anything. But allegations are out there. Have you read the testimony of ‘Katie Johnson‘? You might want to familiarize yourself with it. Obviously, I have no idea whether it’s true. If a third of it is, and it’s ever corroborated, it will be by far the biggest presidential scandal of all time.”

According to Johnson, a pseudonym, she was sexually assaulted by Trump when she was thirteen but then she dropped her lawsuit and dropped out-of-sight, with her story once again resurfacing in the wake of the Epstein saga that has the Department of Justice scrambling.

You can read more from Tomasky here.