I mean, they didn’t admit they were wrong. They’re saying they were basically “totes bamboozled” by Trump once he was elected, which we know is horseshit because half the country apparently did see this coming (and was quite vocal about it).
It shifts the guilt for what is going on entirely on Trump rather than taking an ounce of responsibility for their own role in the whole ordeal.
Apparently Francis was not really stacking the deck much, he appointed both progressives and conservatives. He did improve the geographical spread of the cardinals though.