After all of your actions and the obvious duping of the exchanges (whether they were aware or not) how can the wider community trust you?

You are now in the situation where YOU need to earn the trust of the community back, not the other way around. I personally don't agree with the freezing of anyone's funds on this network, but I do agree with blocking the witness voting privileges of Exchanges (not their coins) and the Steemit stake that was pre-mined and clearly stated to be used for developmental purposes. You could then dump the coins if you want. Powerdown and exit, or use them to vote content, etc.

With all of the actions you have taken lately, TRUST from the community will be hard to come by.....

Your actions will speak louder than words. Work with the other witnesses to implement a fork that blocks the witness voting privileges of the Steemit stake and exchanges. That would probably be a good first step.

You don't own STEEM, you are a component of the community with a stake.