New York Daily News

JUDGE ’EM FOR YOURSELF

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If you thought pervert Roy Moore’s defeat was humiliatin­g for Donald Trump, it was like a giant win compared to the flameouts of his beyond-bizarre choices for three federal judgeships this week.

The uniquely unqualifie­d men include Brett Talley, an Alabama horror book writer/ghost hunter/KKK sympathize­r (were those ghosts he was seeing or just men in white hoods?), who forgot to disclose that his wife is chief of staff of the White House counsel.

Then there was judicial nominee Jeff Mateer of Texas, who called transgende­r children “devil spawn” — proof that Satan’s plan is at work. Right.

Finally, Matthew Spencer Petersen (pictured), a Federal Election Commission member tapped for a lifetime federal judgeship who had never tried a case and couldn’t answer simple legal questions at his confirmati­on hearing.

On the good side, however, a video of Petersen’s performanc­e posted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has turned Petersen into an internet sensation.

On the not-so-good side, it’s also turned him into an internet laughingst­ock. It was so horrifying that Talley should make him a character in his next horror book. Burn, witch, burn!

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