Chips Are Down: Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned as fundraising chair of the Republican National Committee following lurid accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior with female employees. The 76-year-old Wynn was President Trump’s pick for the job. A week ago, Wynn headlined a fundraiser for the president’s re-election campaign and the RNC at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

In a statement, Wynn acknowledged the accusations only as a “distraction” and said, “The unbelievable success we have achieved must continue. The work we are doing to make America a better place is too important to be impaired by this distraction.”

The Wall Street Journal based its story about Wynn’s behavior on 150 interviews with current and former female employees. Some said it was a crap shoot about what would happen when they were called to Wynn’s office. He owns The Mirage, Treasure Island, The Bellagio, and the Wynn among other hotel casinos.

Wynn told Politico in a separate statement the allegations are “the continued work of my ex-wife Elaine Wynn, with whom I am involved in a terrible and nasty lawsuit in which she is seeking a revised divorce settlement.”

Permawar: The death toll has risen to 103 with 158 wounded after a member of the Taliban yesterday detonated an explosives-packed ambulance on a busy street in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The country is under siege. In just the past year, a stunning 10,000 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed.

BotLikes: The New York attorney general has opened an investigation into a company that sold millions of fake followers on social media, sometimes using the personal information of real users.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, “Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law.”

The investigation is into the Florida company Devumi, which sold automated followers to celebrities, sports stars, journalists, and politicians looking to inflate their popularity, according to an article published in yesterday’s NY Times. The paper reports that, “Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million Twitter followers.”

The Obit Page: Mort Walker, the cartoonist who created “Beetle Bailey” in 1950 and “Hi and Lois” in 1954, died at his home in Connecticut at age 94.

At one point “Beetle Bailey,” about a slovenly soldier with his cap perpetually pulled over his eyes, was distributed to 200 million readers around the world. Beetle’s fellow characters included Pvt. Zero, Sgt. Snorkel, the incompetent Gen. Halftrack who ran Camp Swampy, and Halftrack’s curvaceous secretary, Miss Buxley.

The Big Spill: Oil leaked from the sunken Iranian oil tanker Sanchi has become the biggest ocean spill in the last 35 years, threatening the waters and sea life between Japan and South Korea as well as the east side of Japan.

The Sanchi collided with a South Korean freighter in the Sea of Japan on Jan. 6, causing an explosion that killed the entire 32-man crew of the tanker. It burned for a week before sinking.

The Sanchi was carrying 34 million gallons of ultra-light condensate, a form of oil that is extremely toxic, highly flammable, and not easily broken down by bacteria. It actually kills the bacteria that eat other forms of oil.

Big Chill: The Air Force announced plans to replace two refrigerators aboard Air Force One. The cost; nearly $24 million. The original refrigerators were installed in 1990 and are wearing out, they say. Also, the Air Force says the plane needs refrigerated storage space for about 3,000 meals. That’s a lot of presidential cheeseburgers.

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