What better time, then, to remind the public of why Biden was thrown under the proverbial bus?

That’s the thinking of House Republicans, who’ve released a final report on their long-running probe of the Biden family business — i.e., the lucrative sale of Biden’s political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American regimes.

It’s two extremes of reckoning the Biden record.

The Democratic encomia will be as cynical as their bookend project (to be executed Tuesday through Thursday): the transmogrification of Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris, from unpopular speaker of word salads to America’s progressive sweetheart.

Of course, Biden and his record are the last things Democrats want to remind the country of; they are doing this Chicago farewell because it’s the price he and his family, his “Biden Brand” collaborators — demanded before he would step aside.

Republicans, by contrast, mean every word of their report.

It is an important summary of the Biden Family Business, as much accountability as the public can expect given the limitations of congressional investigations that are stonewalled by an incumbent administration.

It is, moreover, a useful record of that stonewalling — very much including the corruption of the Justice Department — which connects the current Biden administration with the tireless self-dealing of Biden’s career, culminating in his term as vice president.

As the investigation spearheaded by House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) documents — and richly corroborates with bank records and testimony from accomplices and whistleblowers — the Biden family cashed in, to the tune of more than $27 million, in marketing access to the current president.

Much of the most egregious influence peddling occurred during Biden’s vice-presidency.

It was then that he took meetings with top executives of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, that put his ne’er-do-well son Hunter on their board — paying millions of dollars in exchange for connection to the Biden name (and, tellingly, slashing Hunter’s compensation in 2017, once Joe was out of office).

These were the years when the then-vice-president, after being beseeched by Hunter’s Burisma paymasters, pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the prosecutor who — like British law-enforcement — was investigating Bursima for corruption.

These were the years during which — even as the vice president theatrically railed at Bucharest to crack down on corruption — Hunter re-ran the Burisma play by taking $1 million from Romanian real-estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu in exchange for pressuring Romanian anti-corruption authorities to back-off (though not enough to erase Popoviciu’s nine-year prison term).

Almost simultaneously, Hunter pressured the Obama-Biden State Department to put in a good word for Burisma with the Italian government.

Naturally, we learned of that only last week — you’ll be shocked, I’m sure, to hear that the Biden-Harris administration withheld disclosure this “Biden Brand” self-dealing until after the plug was pulled on President Biden’s 2024 reelection bid.

It was also in the Obama years that Xi Jinping’s Communist Chinese regime purchased hooks in the Biden family.

In 2013, Hunter hitched a ride with dad on Air Force Two to score an investment partnership — Bohai Harvest RST — with regime insider Jonathan Li and such partners as the Bank of China.

The arrangement helped America’s top geopolitical rival land coveted anti-vibration technology with military uses, as well as a $3.8 billion cobalt mine in Africa — abetting China’s effort to corner the precious metals market (vital, for example, for manufacturing batteries for the electric cars Biden is hectoring Americans to buy).

Further, it was during Joe Biden’s vice presidency that the Bidens hooked up with CEFC, a CCP-dominated Chinese influence operation camouflaged as a regime-backed energy conglomerate.

The CEFC deal eventually brought us the now-infamous “10 percent for the big guy” email — outlining Joe’s personal stake.

It also gave us Hunter’s 2017 WhatsApp shakedown of a CEFC exec — explaining: “I am sitting here with my father” wondering why the “commitment” hasn’t been “fulfilled,” and “I will make certain between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”

Within days, the floodgates opened with $5 million — on top of millions already paid — flowing into the Biden family coffers.

Comer’s committee traces the money trail from Hunter, to Joe’s brother Jim, to Joe Biden himself.

All of this monetization of Joe Biden’s political power should be part of the criminal tax trial Hunter faces in about two weeks.

Why isn’t it? Because the Biden-Harris Justice Department buried it. First, prosecutors tried to disappear the case without any charges at all.

When the IRS whistleblower revelations of preferential treatment made that plan untenable, DOJ tried to give Hunter a sweetheart plea bargain, but that blew up because an alert federal judge asked a few pointed questions about the patently preferential terms of the deal.

Only after that political humiliation was “special counsel” David Weiss permitted to charge the cases he’d tried to make vanish.

By then, though, Weiss had studiously delayed indicting until any charges stemming from influence peddling during Joe Biden’s vice-presidency — any crimes of, say, tax evasion and failure to register as a foreign agent — had become time-barred by the statute of limitations.

Weiss’s indictment of Hunter takes pains to avoid mentioning his father. But the elder Biden pervades it — without his willful indulgence, the influence-peddling could have been stopped in minutes rather than enduring for years.

As Democrats toast President Biden in Chicago, House Republicans provide a necessary tonic.

Comer’s probe was never destined to end in impeachment — with a razor-thin margin and an election just weeks away, Republicans don’t have the numbers.

But the final report is an important counterargument to the hagiography the Democrats will serve up. It is also a reminder of how hard Democrats and the media propped up Joe despite all the evidence of unethical behavior. Keep that in mind as they prop up Kamala.

Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor.