She said that on a taped conversation in private. The article said that she was a critic of his, but I’m not sure that she was a public critic of his.
The point being, it’s not like Donald Trump doesn’t know that he’s done things that were wrong. For example, he knows it’s wrong to try to steal an election, because he’s constantly accusing other people of doing it. But he does know the truth, that it was he who was doing those things.
A person shouldn’t be lauded for privately knowing there is a problem, but never doing anything about it.