It is baffling that people are in essence arguing that although we have extremely strong evidence Trump committed extensive tax fraud earlier in life and faced no consequences for it he just decided to stop one day.
I would call it morally unprepared, psychologically ignorant, unaware that denial or self deception is based on shame and guilt, and that going down that road requires the development of a greater and greater need and thus greater skill at being able to deceive oneself. The first order of business for those who hate themselves, and we should all easily be able to see this, the phenomenon being universal, is to find some alternative to real self respect when lost, and that would mean ego identification with one or another or more of the typically offered isms to which membership appears to confer mutual respect. Church, political party, any of the millions of isms people lose themselves in. In this manner we anoint ourselves as tin horn gods because we worship at the alter of the golden calf. In this way we collect ourselves into self congratulatory herds where we can't be singled our and picked off easily. And into and behind such isms we will find our psychopaths pulling the strings, the cunning who despise the stupid and see them as prey.
And as the evidence of who Trump really is begins to scream in their ears so does the dread their real feelings of worthlessness will surface, having been played as they have for fools. The only way out is to double down or feel their ancient pain, the latter not being a very popular path.