You really cannot blame Trump. After all, the guy is trying to avoid court cases and possible prison time. Plus his psychopathy requires that he erase, or at least negate, his loser label.
I blame the lickspittles who support, excuse and vote for Trump. That includes the voters who delude themselves in to believing they really were voting for JD Vance and not Trump
If Trump voters were hiring for a low level job most would reject any and all applicants with Trump's record in criminal and civil court. A few might might altruistically a hire a felon, but not for an upper management job.
Trump voters tend to deny to that Trump ever advocated anything that was anti-American, undemocratic, unconstitutional, racist, xenophobic, sexist, or otherwise offensive. But when confronted with the videotape, they claim Trump was kidding or didn't mean it. Sure some Trump voters are low information voters who don't know better---there is no IQ test required to vote. But many Trump voters are willfully blind to Trump's worst impulses, criminal, unethical and amoral behavior. Even worse, they realize it and accept it.
Maybe Trump voters don't believe all the negative Trump stories reported by the "liberal press" aka every news source to left of the FOX News. But do they really not believe all the Republicans who say that Trump is a fascist at heart? The most damning assessments of Trump come from the conservatives who worked with him and were on his staff.
That somewhere close to half of the voters in America will vote for guy who openly admires Putin and Hitler is a stain upon America.