VIDEO: Re-re-examining Mike Pence

Hero?

My general working theory of former Vice President Mike Pence is that, at a critical moment in American history, he did the right thing rather than the easy thing. Which makes him a hero — of sorts.

Pence was under massive pressure from Donald Trump to refuse to certify the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021. He did it anyway.

But now comes a new report from ABC that special counsel Jack Smith has uncovered evidence that Pence wasn’t as resolute about that decision as he likes to portray.

As ABC reported:

According to sources, one of Pence's notes obtained by Smith's team shows that, days before Pence was set to preside over Congress certifying the election results on Jan. 6, 2021, he momentarily decided that he would skip the proceedings altogether, writing in the note that there were "too many questions" and it would otherwise be "too hurtful to my friend." But he ultimately concluded he had a duty to show up.

Too hurtful to my friend!

Should this new nugget of information change how we see the former VP — and how history will remember him?

I broke it down below.