More than him -- our nations people.

When Nixon fucked around he stepped down. In doing so, he said to the American people "what I did was wrong and I recognize that."

Trump won't admit wrongdoing. He's been indicted on fucking 90 counts. Until he is actually punished, his followers will only see that they can try to do the same.

Society needs to renounce him, fully, or were fucked.

He won’t

Oh, that's bullshit. He has some sort of fetish about being thrown in jail over campaign speech. It is no accident they left it up there. "Biden locked me up because he is afraid of my campaign!!!1!!1111!!1!one!"

"We're terribly, terribly sorry about being caught."

Not like Trump ever lied to his lawyers.

Unfortunately I don't think we will ever stop hearing his name, Hitler has been dead for almost 80 years and we still hear his almost daily.

I am not a lawyer, but my first thought is that you cannot pass a six figure (or more) fine for this kind of infraction. Even though Trump is starting to show a pattern of disregarding this specific case’s proceedings, the judge would have to start at a reasonable amount and go up from there. In this case, I searched for reasonable fines for violating a gag order and got $1000 to $10000. If he handed down a $500,000 fine then the media / right would go crazy questioning if this fine was justified by Trump’s actions. I think we all know that regardless of the sum (barring $100,000+ fines), Trump is gonna disregard the fine and do it again. But doing so gets Trump closer to actually being imprisoned (in theory). The actual threat of being imprisoned is far more likely to quiet Trump than a monetary fee. ‘Tis the life of the (comparatively) rich, monetary fines don’t have the same sticking power as for you and I.

This geriatric fuck hasn’t seen a single consequence in his whole life, would be nice to see literally anything be done

Nobody is above the law? That remains to be seen

The headline is incorrect, but yours isn't much better.

It should read "Judge asks Trump to explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned or jailed". Because this is what the judge actually said:

I will now allow the defendant to explain why this should not end up with serious sanctions or I could possibly imprison him

so many many ~~alleged~~ crimes.

This isn't a court of law and you aren't a corporation. You're allowed to acknowledge his thoroughly proven (and in some cases even brag-admitted) guilt for what it is. Nobody's going to sue you for telling the truth and nobody reasonable is going to complain either.

To be fair, a decent amount of presidents probably should have been indicted. Trump does take the cake on how directly connected he is to obvious crimes. He's definitely the dumbest in that regard.

Unfortunately I believe there is a long case history that prevents courts from forcing them to say things as it violates the 1st amendment. Similar to forcing engineers to write code that puts "backdoors" into security systems.