Rand Paul’s son apologizes for antisemitic and anti-gay rant after accosting lawmaker

Republican senator Rand Paul’s son William apologized on Wednesday for a drunken tirade at a bar in Washington DC, in which he reportedly told a Republican congressman he “hates Jews and hates gays”. “Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don’t represent who I really am. I’m sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem,” William Paul posted on social media under the handle TastyBrew1776. The apology was posted minutes after Mike Lawler, a Republican congressman, told reporters the senator’s son had drunkenly accosted him on Tuesday night at a bar and said he would hold “anti-American” Jews responsible if his father’s ally, Thomas Massie, a Kentucky congressman, loses a primary election next week. The younger Paul, who recently served as a congressional aide to two of Lawler’s Republican colleagues in the House, went on “a 10-minute diatribe about Jews” at the Tune Inn Restaurant & Bar on Pennsylvania Avenue, Lawler said, and “said that he hates Jews and hates gays and doesn’t care if they die”. “I think that’s fucking disgusting,” Lawler said. Details of the incident were first reported earlier on Wednesday by a witness, Reese Gorman of the digital publication Notus, in a remarkable first-hand account . Lawler told the New York Post that Paul also blamed Israel for the US war on Iran, and said the US was “trying to steal Iran’s land for the Jews and steal the West Bank”. …