If that's Pence's excuse, then he's an airhead.
Trump and Pence are polar opposites in terms of their personality, one supposedly doesn’t go into a room alone with a woman other than his wife, the other has been married 3 times.
He was a loyal VP all the way until the last couple of days, maybe he’s just tired of the drama and doesn’t have the stomach for the fight, remember he folded like a lawn chair as Governor of Indiana over a bathroom bill, doesn’t make him a horrible human being just a bad politician.