Former FBI Director James Comey asked a judge to dismiss the case against him for lying to Congress, saying everything he said in his 2020 testimony was “literally true.”

The filing from Comey's legal team goes on to slam Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for a “fundamentally ambiguous” line of questioning.

“Fundamental to any false statement charge are both clear questions and false answers. Neither exists here,” Comey’s attorneys wrote in the Thursday filing, noting that the statute requires “false answers to precise questions.”

The two-page indictment of Comey was brought after a career prosecutor left the Justice Department over concerns in the case, with President Trump then appointing one of his former personal attorneys to oversee it. In an unusual move, Lindsey Halligan, who is now leadin

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