McConnell once called Biden `a real friend.` Now he`s mum as Trump, GOP attack.
(World News USA)

Three years ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell paid tribute to a former colleague in the most personal of ways. Leading off tributes from the Senate floor, the Kentucky Republican hailed the honoree`s rise from "unknowing despair" to forge "unlikely friendships" and whose word was so good you could "trust him implicitly." Finally, McConnell looked up at the Senate`s presiding officer, growing slightly emotional. "You`ve been a real friend, you`ve been a trusted partner, and it`s been an honor to serve with you," McConnell told Joe Biden, then serving out his final weeks as vice president, on Dec. 7, 2016. "We`re all going to miss...