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OK, maybe this is a better angle of explaining it.. (no pun intended)
Camber of wheel exerts a force on the wheel in the direction of the camber. Think of a circling coin. The camber force is directed to the center of the circle.
This camber force exerts on the trail. So if I have my wheel leaning to the left, the camberforce is directed to the left. But, the force is exterted on the trail! making the bike steer to the right. (this is counter intuitive) To counter that, a force steering the bike to the left has to be evoked. To accomplish that an offset of the trail is required to the left of the trail (here trail is the riding direction) The rolling resistance of the tire is exterted backwards on the trail (here trail is the tire patch trailing the axle of the headtube). So if I make the offset to the left (just a few mm), the rolling ristance pulls back on the trail, pushing the bike to the left.