Joe Biden’s controversial move to protect his son Hunter and maintain his position in the White House

Give the devil his due.

Joe Biden has boasted that he knows how to use power and recent days have featured a president skillfully manipulating the unique might of the Oval Office to protect his family and advance his own re-election chances.

None of his maneuvers, including the pretend border crackdown, will make America safer or better or more united, but those are not Biden’s goals.

He’s making a cynical power play aimed at keeping his son out of prison and keeping himself in the White House.

The sequence began last Thursday with the conviction of Donald Trump in the New York case.

It was a travesty of justice, a tangled web spun out of odds and ends that should never have seen a courthouse.

But against all decency, New York Democrats pushed the slimy blob over the finish line.

Their success gave most Americans another reason to mistrust government and law enforcement.

‘Convicted felon’ quest

Biden doesn’t care about that because he got what he wanted — the ability to call his opponent a convicted felon, a term he promptly used at a gathering of donors.

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One sure sign of confidence is that the talk of replacing Biden on the ticket has stopped.

That suggests Dems believe they can squeak out an Electoral College victory without making any major changes.

It’s still early, but the alarming part is that they could be right.