Sexual Politics: President Trump yesterday all but endorsed Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore, despite accusations by nine women who say he pursued and even molested them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

“If you look at what is really going on, and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it,” Trump said. “He says it didn’t happen. You have to listen to him also.”

Trump declined to say whether it was more important to him to elect a Republican than to reject an accused child molester. “We don’t need a liberal person in there, a Democrat, Jones,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ve looked at his record. It’s terrible on crime. It’s terrible on the border. It’s terrible on the military.”

Goodbye Charlie: CBS News abruptly fired its morning anchor Charlie Rose less than 24 hours after the Washington Post published a story in which eight women accused him of sexual improprieties.

CBS News President David Rhodes said in a staff memo, “CBS News has reported on extraordinary revelations at other media companies this year and last. Our credibility in that reporting requires credibility managing basic standards of behavior. That is why we have taken these actions.”

Rose’s accusers were all associated with his public television interview show. But after he was fired, three women who work for CBS came forward.

Over a long career, Rose became one of the most respected elder statesmen of television journalism. His firing is a stunningly swift and final resolution, probably ending his career in broadcasting. PBS has taken his venerated “Charlie Rose” show out of distribution.

Rhodes said, “Despite Charlie’s important journalistic contribution to our news division, there is absolutely nothing more important, in this or any organization, than ensuring a safe, professional workplace—a supportive environment where people feel they can do their best work,” Rhodes said. “We need to be such a place.”

And More: The latest is that Rep. John Conyers, 88, who has represented parts of Detroit since 1965, settled a wrongful termination complaint in 2015 by a staff member who had accused him of sexual harassment. He denied that the staff member was fired for refusing to have sex with him.

The $27,000 settlement was paid out of his congressional office budget.

That’s not all. BuzzFeed published legal documents revealing repeated  allegations by female staff members suggestively touched them and asked for sex.

Foreign Affairs: Zimbabwe’s president/dictator Robert Mugabe resigned yesterday after 37 years in office as his parliament began impeachment proceedings.

His resignation set off jubilation both in parliament and the streets. At 93, Mugabe was the world’s oldest head of state, and one of the longest serving ever. Since 1980, when his country became independent from Britain, Mugabe ruled by rewarding his allies and crushing his opponents.

The military arrested Mugabe saying they wanted to restore democracy, but that rarely happens when the army takes over. Some observers think Mugabe is trying to pave the way for his wife to take over. —  Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims during the breakup of Yugoslavia, has been convicted of war crimes. The 75-year-old Mladic was sentenced to life in prison.

From 1992 to 1995, Mladic was the chief military organizer of the campaign to drive Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs off their lands. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed.

Net Loss: The Federal Communications Commission announced yesterday that it plans to repeal the Obama-era policy of “net neutrality” which prevents internet providers from favoring some websites that pay more and blocking others that don’t. The policy was designed to keep the web free and even-handed.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican, said, “The FCC would simply require internet service providers to be transparent about their practices so that consumers can buy the service plan that’s best for them.”

As if everyday internet users could figure out what giants like Google and AT&T are doing.

The Obit Page: Former teen idol David Cassidy has died in a Florida hospital at age 67.

Cassidy was the spawn of the television series, “The Partridge Family,” that featured a family band headed by Shirley Jones as the mother, and five kids. It was modeled after the 60s band, The Cowsills, but Cassidy became more famous, for years filling the pages of teen magazines like Tiger Beat.

The Partridges’ most famous song, “I Think I Love You,” spent three weeks on top of the Billboard chart.

Cassidy performed for the next 40 years, ending up as a Las Vegas act. He was married and divorced three times and became an alcoholic. He died of the effects of multiple organ failure.

The American President: President Trump was up at 5:30 this morning demonstrating that the father of a college basketball player has seriously gotten under his skin. He tweeted, “It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME.”

The president has the nuclear codes.

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