Could Mitch McConnell endorse Trump even though he called him an 'old crow', a 'piece of s***' and mocked his wife? Republican Senator's team in talks with ex-president's aides to announce his backing

Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are ready to let bygones be bygones, with the teams of both party leaders in talks about the Senate GOP leader endorsing Trump's 2024 campaign. 

The Kentucky Republican is the highest-ranking and only member of Senate Republican leadership who has not yet endorsed the former president after Whip John Thune gave Trump's re-election his blessing over the weekend. 

Though McConnell and Trump have not spoken since December 2020, the two party leaders' political operations have been in talks about the endorsement that could bring together the MAGA and Trump-reluctant wings of the Republican Party,  a source involved confirmed to DailyMail.com after the New York Times first reported. 

A nod from the GOP leader could open up a whole new class of establishment, McConnell backing donors for the former president. 

Trump has already been forced to spend $50 million on legal bills as campaign season kicks into high gear and President Biden's operation is expected to outspend Trump and his orbit. 

Trump, with McConnell, front left, arrives at the US Capitol to attend the Republicans weekly policy luncheon on March 10, 2020

For McConnell, endorsing Trump could smooth over discontent from his own right wing colleagues who have begun calling on him to step down. 

Trump for years has lobbed vicious attacks at McConnell, who he's described as 'old crow' and even a 'piece of s**t.' 

 He's attacked McConnell's wife and his own Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, as 'Coco Chow' and McConnell's 'China-loving wife.'

McConnell has long said he will support his party's nominee while avoiding discussing Trump by name. 

Less than a week ago Trump said he didn't know if he could work with McConnell if elected. 

For McConnell, endorsing Trump could smooth over discontent from his own right wing colleagues who have begun calling on him to step down

'He'll probably end up endorsing me. I don't know that I can work with him,' Trump said during a town hall on Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle' on Tuesday. 'He gave away trillions of dollars that he didn't have to, trillions of dollars. He made it very easy for the Democrats.' 

McConnell, for his part, has condemned Trump's role in the January 6 riot, calling it a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty.' Chao resigned the day after the attack, deeming it 'a traumatic and entirely avoidable event.'

Trump has most recently worked to undermine McConnell by lobbying against a bipartisan foreign aid and immigration bill he had supported. 

McConnell has been pleading for further aid for Ukraine, which the package included and Trump and his supporters have railed against. 

But McConnell and Trump worked together to push through a major tax cut package in 2017, and confirm a record number of federal judges and three Supreme Court justices.