Ex-FBI Director James Comey claims President Trump’s perjury case against him should be tossed because the prosecutor is a joke — and was the only government lawyer willing to take him on in court.

Comey, 64, argued in new court papers Monday that green interim US attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan’s oversight of the case helps prove it is nothing more than a politically motivated prosecution in retaliation for the FBI’s “Russiagate” investigation during Trump’s first term in office.

“No career prosecutor was willing to bring the case; the President nevertheless publicly demanded prosecution; and at the last minute, he installed a White House aide with no prosecutorial experience to deliver the desired result,” Comey’s lawyers wrote in a bid to have the case to

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