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Sen. Smith in Dem-ial

He’s facing up to 45 years in prison, but state Sen. Malcolm Smith looked as if he were working a fund-raiser yesterday as he greeted supporters following his arraignment on federal corruption charges.

“Hi, how you doing? Thanks for coming!” the disgraced Queens Democrat said, grinning broadly and shaking hands with a dozen backers who made the trip to White Plains federal court.

Some even portrayed Smith — a Democrat who is accused of plotting to buy his way onto the GOP ticket for mayor of New York — as the victim.

“Republicans are the prostitutes. They were selling. I’m sorry he got hooked into this, but they were selling,” Roz Conyers told The Post, which broke the story of Smith’s April 2 arrest.

Smith, City Councilman Dan Halloran and four others — Bronx Republican boss Joseph Savino, Queens GOP Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret — pleaded not guilty before federal magistrate Judge Lisa Smith.

Prosecutors charged that Smith, 56, and Republican and Halloran, 42, arranged tens of thousands in bribes for the party bosses in the bizarre scheme to get Smith on the GOP ballot.Neither spoke in court, but a defiant Halloran proclaimed his innocence outside, blurting, “I have nothing to say other than not guilty!”