It’s now been discovered that Joseph Menn, a reporter for Reuters intentionally withheld Beto O’Rourke’s history of being a part of a notorious hacking group.

The information was held by Menn until after the Senate election against opponent Ted Cruz in order to try and help Beto defeat Cruz.

According to Fox News,

Reuters is facing ethical questions after admitting that reporter Joseph Menn sat on an unfavorable story about media darling Beto O’Rourke until after his crucial Senate race against Ted Cruz.

Reuters published its report Friday on the “Cult of the Dead Cow,” a famous group of hackers credited with inventing the term “hacktivism,” and revealed that now-2020 presidential candidate O’Rourke was a member. The group is responsible for a variety of shady activity like stealing credit card numbers to pay for long-distance telephone service, violating copyright laws and hacking into computers, according to the report, which stressed that O’Rourke himself never “engaged in the edgiest sorts of hacking activity.”

Not only is this crazy, but by now you may have heard about his disturbing story he wrote.

Read it for yourself below:

“One day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles. … This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams. As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head.”

How about the man being arrested in 1998 for DWI and running from the police? Oh, and let’s not forget attempted forcible entry and burglary.

This man is really running for President of the United States of America?

I’m looking forward to someone bringing it up during debate. This is going to be a very entertaining season.

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