Whitlock: The Trump Mug Shot Could Make the Former President Tupac Shakur and Abraham Lincoln

The blacklash of martyring Donald Trump is a real thing. The former president’s mug shot from a Fulton County jail has given black men the space to abandon the cosplay of painting Trump as the second coming of Adolf Hitler. The trumped-up persecution of America’s 45th president has turned Trump into the avatar for rebellion. Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor, transformed Trump into Tupac, not Martin Luther King Jr. She unwittingly invited Trump to the proverbial “cookout.”