Nothing more than a guess but I’ll bet Rand Paul himself wanted to downplay this to protect his idiot neighbor from the national media circus. Just my gut feeling that he’s not a vindictive guy and he is well aware of the insanity of the press.
I doubt that is why. Paul was hurt pretty bad, he would normally want the guy to pay a big penalty. My bet is that the reason for the beef is something embarassing to Paul, and he doesn't want to make the incident into a big thing.
“Rand Paul himself wanted to downplay this to protect his idiot neighbor from the national media circus...”
Yes, Rand Paul wanted to protect the man who tried to kill him.
Great! We have to put up with another violent commie thug in our midst so that a celeb can look charitable. Laws do not belong to the victim, they belong to all of us.