“He has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion on what others think he wanted to do rather than what he actually did.”
The idiot confessed.
I never heard that Craig "confessed" --though I've heard some people claim he did.
AFAIK Craig pleaded guilty to "make the thing go away." That's not the same as a confession.
A confession would go something like this: "Yes I was soliciting sex." Craig has never said that or anything like it.