I don’t see your conclusion when I look at this. Pence reported to Trump as he should, that Flynn was not completely candid with him. Then Trump, who then became responsible for handling things from that point, told the world that he had lost confidence in the trustworthiness of what Flynn tells the administration - because of this - therefore he lets Flynn go.
I have read a source that says Flynn told a deliberate lie to Peter Strzok when interviewed, in order to protect President Trump, because Flynn realized right away that this interview was a scheme to entrap both him and the President into appearing guilty of something terrible by Flynn having spoken to a high Russian official, when there was nothing wrong with the conversation (which had been eavesdropped on and recorded and evaluated by the FBI).
BUT, that further to protect the President, Flynn did not confide in Pence what was going on with him and this interview which was of deep concern. But Flynn did this on purpose to keep the rogue FBI off of the President’s back for which Flynn made himself the Fall Guy by claiming sole responsibility for that phone call/conversation.
So he gave the right people an “out” to separate themselves from him and his case, and he “balled up” the FBI attempt to use him to nail Trump.
At some point I believe Trump had some kind of independent knowledge of the situation and was able to work around it, which is exactly what Flynn hoped for.
Pence was nothing more than a conduit of the obvious. He wasn’t scheming against the President, not for anyone, much less the Deep State or Establishment or Elite or Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush or whomever is tagged as somehow involved.
If not more careful and not so speculative, one can go off the deep end and I’m cautioning everyone, please don’t, for your own sakes as well as the good guys and our country.
I did not refer to any specific action of Pence’s. I described what he is, and has been for decades.