Rand Paul's son divulges reason for unhinged anti-Semitic bar rant

18:14 EDT 13 May 2026, updated 18:16 EDT 13 May 2026 By NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT

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The son of Republican Senator Rand Paul is now saying he'll seek treatment for a drinking problem after he went on an anti-Semitic tirade to Republican Congressman Mike Lawler.

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Tuesday night at the Capitol Hill dive bar, the Tune Inn, William Paul confronted Lawler over an upcoming House primary in Paul's home state of Kentucky.

Paul told Lawler that if libertarian-leaning Republican Representative Thomas Massie loses his primary last week it's thanks to 'your people,' NOTUS first reported.

'My people?' Lawler asked Paul.

'Yeah, you Jews,' the senator's son responded.

'Do you think I'm Jewish?' Lawler asked. 'I'm not.'

In his own telling to reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Lawler noted how he told Paul he was an 'Irish-Italian Catholic.'

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'Oh wow, I'm so sorry for calling you a Jew,' Paul then said, according to NOTUS.

But the exchange didn't end there.

Lawler said Paul engaged in a 'roughly 10 minute diatribe' in which the senator's son used a number of anti-Semitic tropes.

'And at one point, you know, [he] said he hates Jews and hates gays and doesn't care if they die, and I think that's f***ing disgusting,' the New York Republican told reporters outside the Capitol Building.

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Lawler said the conversation 'shortly thereafter' ended, with Paul making a dramatic exit.

NOTUS reported that on his way out, the Senator's son 'knocked his barstool down and tripped over it.'

'He gave me the middle finger and then tripped on his way out the door,' the congressman described.

The whole exchanged happened in front of Reese Gorman, a Congressional reporter for NOTUS.

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