Ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s brazen bid to toss his drug-trafficking case was flatly denied Thursday — as lawyers warred over who would foot the tyrant’s legal bills. The toppled strongman, 63, wearing a tan jail jumpsuit and black glasses and seated beside his co-defendant wife, Celia Flores, 69, who was also clad in prison-issue garb, calmly jotted down notes during his first court appearance since January, where he had defiantly claimed that the US military had “kidnapped’’ him.