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The story of two brothers who turned this police detective's life upside down will leave you speechless

November 25, 2014
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The story below is based off the transcript of the video above, produced by Jenna Diaco, edited by Roland Smith, and voiced by Glenn.

"With my parents, like I tell everybody, they always loved us, but they couldn’t take care of themselves as much as they could take care of four kids, so we were sleeping in vans. We were sleeping in campers, wasn’t the greatest place to sleep. And as soon as I walked in, it was just a lot of friendship. A lot of friendship came to me," said Josh.

"We knew their family life. We knew about their parents and everything. The parents weren’t abusive. They were just so down and out, they just did not have financial means to give them adequate housing and adequate, you know, food and water and heat and stuff like that," said Jack Mook.

Detective Jack Mook is not somebody you want to mess with. He has been hardened by the constant grind of Pittsburgh streets.

"In a 22-year career, I probably did 17 years in narcotics, and in narcotics, I’ve worked at undercover. I’ve worked at where I just suppressed the corners of street dealers and raided homes and everything else," Jack explained.

In his line of work, you need an outlet. Boxing is his. Jack’s been volunteering at the Steel City Boxing Gym for more than a decade, but just a few years ago, two young brothers stumbled in and changed his life forever.

"You could tell while there were coming it was an escape, and you could tell when they sparred, when they fought, you could really feel and see the emotions," one of the boy's trainers said.

In a place known for sparring, Josh and Jesse found peace. Coach worked with them for a while, until suddenly they just stopped hanging around.

"We became worried about it. We talked about it. We went on the lookout for them, you know, see if you see them in the neighborhood, if they pop up, ask them what’s going on," Jack said.

The boys’ parents had lost custody of them. They were sent to live with relatives where their living conditions quickly deteriorated from poverty to sheer neglect and abuse.

"I finally found Joshua December of 2012, right before Christmas. He didn’t look good—blotches of hair missing, you know, some type of rash on the back of his head, psoriasis, flea bites, you know, sunken-in cheeks. And Joshua and I went out the road, and I got him something to eat," Jack said.

"He was very quiet and wouldn’t speak much. I knew something was wrong, so I pulled over, and instead of being a coach I was being a cop on this one. I was like, you know, what’s going on here, Josh? You know, you’ve got to tell me what’s up. If you need help, you’ve got to ask those that are closest to you."

"He breaks down crying. He goes there’s dog feces in the carpet. They make us clean it up with our toothbrushes. They’re not sleeping in a bed. They either sleep on the floor or on a sectional couch together."

Joash said, "When I thought to myself at night it was always what can I do for Jesse to cheer him up the next day? The one time he wasn’t doing too good in school, but nobody actually helped him but me, and one time they brought him home. They took him upstairs, and they beat him up. I didn’t watch, but I heard the pain. I heard the crying, and after that it just kind of broke me down. And after that, I made sure nothing would ever happen like that to him again."

His brother Jesse explained, "Well, there was always trouble. There was this big fight on the street, and they picked up like a sign or something and started swinging…shootings. I don’t want to say, but there’s pills all over the street, literally thousands of them."

"I said Joshua, just hang in there. Take care of your brother," Jack said. "Let me see what I can do. And then I came home, and when I came home I just felt selfish and guilty that I have a whole house here, and these kids are going through that. So right there I made a decision to get on the ball and go get them."

The process would take time, but Jack Mook began taking the necessary steps to get Josh and Jesse under his care. Then, just a couple of weeks later, he got a little help from divine intervention when the relative the boys had been living with had a serious run-in with the law. By emergency order, the boys were sent to live with him.

"I thought I was just out to eat or something, and then when I seen the Benz on the porch and I seen him carrying him out, I was like this is the real deal," Josh said. "I still wasn’t super happy, but then once I got in the car, his words were you’re coming home with me, and that’s when the smile came, and all the stress, all the anger, all of the depression, all of the everything, it left me that day, all of it."

"Now, once they’re here I’m just getting things settled in. I’m trying to explain rules to them, what’s going to happen. Then I kind of realized okay, you’re going to be a foster parent, you know? And I also realized then I’m going to keep them forever," Jack said.

Just over two months ago, Coach got one step closer to doing just that.

"Honestly, I think when the judge signed the adoption papers, I understood why the Grinch got the big heart at the end of the movie," Jack said. "That’s what I felt like. And to see the smiles and the laughter and the happiness and their faces are filled, you know, they’re fed, they’re healthy boys. I have no doubt if I did not take these boys on they would have ended up in juvenile detention centers or some halfway house for orphans or something."

Jesse said, "If I wouldn’t have got out of there, I would have grown up to be one of those guys on the street, no job, no diploma or anything, asking for change and stuff."

"They weren’t raising us right," Josh explained. "Before, there were drugs in the house. They were bad influences. They were just no good people. It’s just I think we would have been dead. That’s what I think, and I’m very appreciative that I ain’t."

"I’m Coach, and I’ll always be Coach," Jack told TheBlaze. "And they look at Coach as, you know, the provider, the guardian, the protector, yet the best friend."

Thanks to a little dedication and a whole lot of love, this team has become a family.

"This is, you know, the greatest thing that will ever happen in the history of this boxing gym," one of the trainers said. "Nothing is going to top what this man has done through this gym and for these boys."

"He gave me the focus. He got me out of where I was. He saved me. Like everybody says, everything happens for a reason, and God works in mysterious ways. I think it’s God’s plan, but God gave us obstacles to have to overcome still to be a family right now," Jack said.

"All the stuff we’ve been through, it was all God’s plan, even though it was bad, but still, there were huge just obstacles to see if we could overcome, and we did it, and we proved ourselves, and I think now He rewarded us with a family."

Who is Ryan Wesley Routh, Trump's second would-be Assassin?

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For the second time in two months, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.

Fortunately, this time the former president walked away from the incident unharmed, as did everyone else involved. Is anyone surprised that as the election cycle heats up and Democrats and the mainstream media have increased their false and hateful rhetoric against Trump, another assassination attempt should be made against him?

The second would-be assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, was allegedly deeply affected by the rhetoric and propaganda regurgitated by the media and evidently decided to take matters into his own hands. Delving into the turbulent past of Ryan Routh reveals a violent and unstable man with many radical beliefs and an impressionable mind. How Routh apparently managed to avoid any FBI/terrorist watchlists is just one of the mysteries surrounding the second attempted assassination of President Trump.

Here's what we know about Ryan Wesley Routh so far:

The assassination attempt

Photo of Routh's Sniper Nest

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At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, September, 15th, the Secret Service opened fire on a concealed gunman who was hidden in some bushes along the perimeter of Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The gunman was in a makeshift sniper's nest on the outside of the perimeter chain-link fence only a couple hundred yards from where Trump was golfing. He had been camping there for over 12 hours. After being fired on, the gunman ran back to his car and was quickly apprehended by the police, where he was identified as Ryan Wesley Routh.

After Routh's arrest, investigators discovered the sniper's nest built within the perimeter fence. Routh had hung two backpacks with bullet-proof ceramic plates inside on the fence with a narrow gap between them for his rifle to poke through. It is clear that Routh had come prepared for a shoot-out and had possibly taken notes from the last would-be Trump assassin, who was taken out by counter-snipers before he could finish his task.

His background

Routh at a pro-Ukraine rally Kyiv, Ukraine

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Routh is a long-time supporter of the Democrat party and a vehement Trump hater. He has written a multitude of deranged social media posts that express his loathing of the Republican nominee and parrot the rhetoric spewed by the mainstream media. Last year, Routh wrote a book urging Iran to assassinate President Trump for the "tremendous blunder” of leaving the Iran nuclear deal.

Routh is an outspoken advocate for the Ukrainian cause, and many of his social media posts are centered around this interest. He even made a trip to Ukraine with the bizarre mission of recruiting former Afghanistan troopers to fight for the Ukrainian cause. He returned home after six months without accomplishing his goal.

Shortly after the shoot-out, Ryan Routh's son, Oran Routh,, gave some personal information about his father. He claimed that he had no prior knowledge of the planned assassination attempt, and in fact, he had grown distant from his father after a falling-out. Oran did admit to sharing his father's "reasonable" hatred of Trump and claimed that his father was a peaceful, hard-working man. He also claimed that, as far as he knew, his father had only a few speeding tickets on his criminal record and had never even owned a firearm. This claim was quite contrary to reality.

Ryan Wesley Routh has quite the criminal record, which culminated in an arrest in 2002 when he fled the police during a traffic stop and barricaded himself in his roofing business with a machine gun. Routh was later convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, but managed to dodge the 20-plus years in prison typically associated with charges of that nature.

His goals

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While Routh's exact motives are still unknown, we can infer some things from his background.

It is clear that Routh has an extreme hatred of President Trump that has been brewing for many years, as expressed by his social media posts and deranged book. Routh is also not immune to extreme ideologies, as demonstrated by his strange Ukrainian escapade, and he is clearly no stranger to violence, as evidenced by his criminal record.

There is also the matter of his weapon of mass destruction conviction, along with many other crimes. How did he manage to avoid the lengthy prison sentence typical of convictions of such magnitude?

One thing is clear: Routh is clearly a disturbed individual who has been exposed to the onslaught of anti-Trump propaganda that has portrayed him as an embodiment of evil and an existential threat to the country and the world.


Presidential debate recap: The good, the bad and the ugly

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The second presidential debate was many things--some good, some bad, but one thing was made clear: this election is far from over.

If you were watching the debate with Glenn during the BlazeTV exclusive debate coverage, then you already know how the debate went: Kamala lied through her teeth and Trump faced a three-pronged attack from Harris and the two ABC moderators. This was not the debate performance we were hoping for, but it could have gone far worse. If you didn't get the chance to watch the debate or can't bring yourself to watch it again and are looking for a recap, we got you covered. Here are the good, the bad, and the ugly from the second presidential debate:

The Good

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Let's start with what went well.

While there was certainly room for improvement, Trump's performance wasn't terrible, especially compared to his performance in other debates. He showed restraint, kept himself from being too brash, and maintained the name-calling to a minimum. In comparison, Kamala Harris was struggling to maintain her composure. Harris was visibly emotional and continued to make obnoxious facial expressions, which included several infuriating eye-rolls and patronizing smirks.

The Bad

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Despite all that, the debate could have gone much better...

While Trump was able to keep his cool during the debate, he was not able to stay on track. Kamala kept making inflammatory comments meant to derail Trump, and every time, he took the bait. Trump spent far too long defending his career and other extraneous issues instead of discussing issues relevant to the American people and revealing Kamala's failures as Vice President.

Trump's biggest blunder during the debate was his failure to prevent Kamala from leaving that debate looking like a credible option as president. Kamala was fairly unknown to the American people and had remained that way on purpose, giving only one interview after Biden stepped down from the campaign. This is because every time Kamala opens her mouth, she typically makes a fool of herself. Trump needed to give Kamala more time to stick her foot in her mouth and to press Kamala on the Biden administration's failures over the past four years. Instead, he took her bait and let her run down the clock, and by the end of the debate, she left looking far more competent than she actually is.

The Ugly

If anything, the debate reminded us that this election is far from over, and it's more important now than ever for Trump to win.

The most noteworthy occurrence of the debate was the blatantly obvious bias of the ABC debate moderators against Trump. Many people have described the debate as a "three vs. one dogpile," with the moderators actively participating in debating Trump. If you didn't believe that the media was in the back pocket of the Democrats before, it's hard to deny it now. Kamala stood on stage and lied repeatedly with impunity knowing that the moderators and the mainstream media at large would cover for her.

The stakes have never been higher. With so many forces arrayed against Trump, it's clear to see that the Left cannot afford to let Trump win this November. The shape of America as we know it is on the line. Kamala represents the final push by the globalist movement to take root and assimilate America into the growing global hivemind.

The election is far from over. This is our sign to stand up and fight for our nation and our values and save America.

Glenn: Illegal aliens could swing the 2024 election, and it spells trouble for Trump

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Either Congress must pass the SAVE Act, or states must protect the integrity of their elections — especially the seven swing states that could shift the outcome of 2024 by a hair’s breadth.

Progressives rely on three main talking points about illegal aliens voting in our elections.

The first is one of cynical acceptance. They admit that illegal immigrants are already voting but argue that there is nothing we can do to stop it, suggesting that it’s just another factor we should expect in future elections. This position shows no respect for our electoral system or the rule of law and doesn’t warrant further attention.

This election will be very similar to 2020. It’s like football — a game of inches.

The second talking point targets the right. Progressives question why Republicans care, asking why they assume illegal immigrants voting would only benefit the other side. They suggest that some of these voters might also support the GOP.

On this point, the data says otherwise.

Across the board, immigrants vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, regardless of what state they’re in. The vast majority of migrants are coming up from South America, a region that is undergoing a current “left-wing” experiment by voting for far-left candidates practically across the board. Ninety-two percent of South America’s population favors the radical left, and they’re pouring over our border in record numbers — and, according to the data, they’re not changing their voting habits.

The third main talking point concedes that illegal immigrants are voting but not enough to make a significant dent in our elections — that their effect is minuscule.

That isn’t what the numbers show either.

Texas just audited its voter rolls and had to remove more than 1 million ineligible voters. The SAVE Act would mandate all states conduct such audits, but the left in Congress is currently trying to stop its passage. Dare I say that the left's pushback is because illegal immigration actually plays in Democrats' favor on Election Day?

Out of the 6,500 noncitizens removed from the voter rolls, nearly 2,000 had prior voting history, proving that illegal aliens are voting. But do the numbers matter, or are they “minuscule,” as the left claims? Let’s examine whether these illegal voting trends can make a dent in the states that matter the most on Election Day.

The corporate legacy media agree that Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin will swing the election in November. By Election Day, an estimated 8 million illegal aliens will be living in the United States. Can these 8 million illegal immigrants change the course of the 2024 election? Let’s look at the election data from each of these seven swing states:

These are the numbers being sold to us as “insignificant” and “not enough to make a difference.” Arizona and Georgia were won in 2020 by a razor-thin margin of approximately 10,000 votes, and they have the most illegal immigrants — besides North Carolina — of all the swing states.

This election will be very similar to 2020. It’s like football — a game of inches. The progressives are importing an electorate to extend their ground by feet, yards, and often miles.

This is why Democrats in Congress oppose the SAVE Act, why the Justice Department has ignored cases of illegal voting in the past, and why the corporate left-wing media is gaslighting the entire country on its significance. This is a power play, and the entire Western world is under the same assault.

If things stay the status quo, these numbers prove the very real possibility of an election swing by illegal immigrants, and it will not favor our side of the aisle. Congress must pass the SAVE Act. If it fails, states must step up to protect the integrity of their elections — especially the seven swing states that could shift the outcome of 2024 by a hair’s breadth.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on TheBlaze.com.

Hunter pleads GUILTY, but did he get a pass on these 3 GLARING crimes?

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Last week, Hunter Biden made the shocking decision to suddenly plead guilty to all nine charges of tax-related crimes after claiming innocence since 2018.

Hunter first tried an "Alford plead" in which a defendant maintains their innocence while accepting the sentencing, typically due to the overwhelming evidence against them. Hunter's Alford plead was not accepted after the prosecutors objected to the suggestion, and Hunter quickly pleaded guilty.

Glenn could not believe just how disrespectful this situation was to the justice system and the American people. After years of lying about his innocence, which only served to deepen the divide in our country, Hunter decided to change his tune at the last minute and admit his guilt. Moreover, many expect Joe Biden will swoop in after the election and bail his son out with a presidential pardon.

This isn't the first time Hunter's crimes have turned out to be more than just a "right-wing conspiracy theory," and, odds are, it won't be the last. Here are three crimes Hunter may or may not be guilty of:

Gun charges: Found guilty

This June, Hunter Biden was found guilty of three federal gun charges, which could possibly land him up to 25 years in prison. Hunter purchased a revolver in 2018 while addicted to crack, and lied to the gun dealer about his addiction. While Hunter could face up to 25 years in prison, it's unlikely to be the case as first-time offenders rarely receive the maximum sentence. That's assuming Joe even lets it go that far.

Tax evasion: Plead guilty

Last week, Hunter changed his plea to "guilty" after years of pleading innocent to federal tax evasion charges. Since 2018, Delaware attorneys have been working on Hunter's case, and just before the trial was set to begin, Hunter changed his plea. According to the investigation, Hunter owed upwards of $1.4 million in federal taxes that he avoided by writing them off as fraudulent business deductions. Instead, Hunter spent this money on strippers, escorts, luxury cars, hotels, and, undoubtedly, crack.

Joe's involvement with Hunter's foreign dealings: Yet to be proven

Despite repeated claims against it, there is ample evidence supporting the theory Joe Biden was aware of Hunter's business dealings and even had a hand in them. This includes testimony from Devon Archer, one of Hunter's business partners, confirming Joe joined several business calls. Despite the mounting evidence Joe Biden was involved in Hunter's overseas business dealings and was using his influence to Hunter's benefit, the Bidens still maintain their innocence.