Evangelical: A fifth woman came forward yesterday to accuse Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual abuse when she was a teenager.

  Beverly Young Nelson said that in 1977 Moore flirted with her when she was a 16-year-old waitress in a restaurant where Moore was a regular customer. He even signed her high school yearbook with the message, “To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say ‘Merry Christmas.’ Love, Roy Moore, D.A.”

Beneath his signature he wrote the name of the restaurant, “Old Hickory House.”

Moore said, “I don’t even know the woman” or the restaurant. He said, “I believe this is nothing but pure 100 percent swamp politics.”

Nelson told reporters Moore gave her a ride home one day, groped her, and tried to force her face onto his crotch. She said at a press conference, “He then looked at me and said, ‘You are a child. I am the district attorney, you tell anyone about this, no one will believe you.’”

Moore was a local prosecutor at the time.

  Man of few words, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, abandoned Moore yesterday saying, “I think he should step aside.”

Accusations by five women saying Moore pursued or molested them when they were teenagers have thrown the Alabama race into an uproar with Moore claiming the reports are “fake news.” But McConnell said, “I believe the women, yes.”

Many of Moore’s hard core supporters are standing by him as “a man of God” in the heavily conservative and religious state. Some say they suspect a Democratic plot.

Moore threatened to sue The Washington Post which published the initial report. It would be a suicide mission revealing lurid details if he actually does it.

Something Crooked: With President Trump complaining that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats should be investigated, the Justice Department told Congress yesterday that they are considering whether to appoint a special counsel. Prosecutors are expected to examine dealings of the Clinton Foundation and the Obama administration’s 2010 decision to allow a Russian nuclear energy agency to buy a controlling interest in US uranium.

Of course, this raises the possibility that this is a political move to distract from the investigation of Russian influence on the 2016 election.

The Russia Thing: Reporter Julia Ioffe broke a big story for The Atlantic revealing that Donald Trump, Jr. had direct contact with Wikileaks during the 2016 campaign and after about dealing dirt on Hillary Clinton. The younger Trump says it amounts to nothing, but some of his communications with Wikileaks coincide with tweets put out by his candidate father.

Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions is expected to appear before the House Judiciary Committee today, where he’ll face a battery of questions about the 2016 campaign.

Sessions is getting new heat following information revealed in the indictment of campaign aide George Papadopoulos. Also, former policy adviser Carter Page, who previously denied it, told a congressional committee that he met with Russian officials during a trip to Moscow while he was working for the campaign.

Sessions was in the meeting in which Papadopoulos proposed a Trump-Putin meeting during the campaign, something Sessions never mentioned. Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken wrote Sessions a scathing eight-page letter in which he said, “You failed to tell the truth about your interactions with Russian operatives during the campaign, as well as your awareness of Russian contacts by other members of the Trump campaign team.”

Frat Boys: Basement video recovered from a Penn State fraternity has led to additional criminal charges in the death last February of 19-year-old pledge Timothy Piazza. The video, which had been deleted by a member and restored by the FBI, showed fraternity brothers giving Piazza 18 drinks over 82 minutes.

Previous video showed Piazza repeatedly falling down.

Eleven fraternity members already face charges. New accusations have been brought against 12 more, plus five of the original 11.

Bling: A new “Bling Ring” appears to be working the bedrooms and wall safes of Los Angeles celebrities including Alanis Morissette, Nicki Minaj, former NBA star Derek Fisher, and Hilary Duff, the NY Post reports. Morissette lost $2 million worth of jewelry in a home burglary. Fisher was robbed of five NBA championship rings.

The original Bling Ring in 2008 and 2009 was a group of teenagers who netted about $3 million worth of goods in home burglaries. They were amateurs. The new ring appears to have stepped up to a professional level.

Kim Kardashian is not on the list of victims, but she was robbed in Paris, which is much classier.

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