"my considered judgement that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."

What Pence said here, was 100% correct.

I’ve come to believe Pence provided the cover for the January 6th false flag when he issued that letter saying he was powerless. When he did that he provided the “motive” for the January 6th False Flag.

The enemy wanted him to do what "MAGA" allegedly wanted him to do, which would have actually been unconstitutional. The enemy would then say "aha got 'em! It's a coup! Pew pew pew pew."

Pence's letter was calling the enemy's bluff and forcing them into making the first move at that stage of the rebellion. His action was comparable to sending the Star of the West to resupply Ft. Sumter. And he suckered them into firing, not really doing much damage, but nonetheless revealing their hand, which was that they wanted to have a truly violent, deadly day on Jan 6th. As we all know, that didn't happen. All that was left, was for the unlawful inauguration, the actual firing on Ft. Sumter, in keeping with the historical comparison.

If he didn’t publish that letter MAGA would have left DC believing he was fighting for them.

The letter made no impact on what he did, and was always going to do. Say he doesn't publish it? He still wasn't going to act unconstitutionally and do what "some" wanted him to do. Unless he "rejected the votes" (again, he had no constitutional power to do so), it was inevitable that the historically and constitutionally illiterate "MAGA" still would have pinned him the scapegoat like Lost Cause propagandists did to Longstreet and Ewell at Gettysburg. That's exactly what the enemy wanted. Cause division. Get MAGA angry, and project it in the wrong direction to distract them from the real problems, and like killing two birds with one stone, go apeshit crazy and fuel a real war... instead, what happened was the "WoRst DaY iN HiStorY" the "DeAdLy iNSurERECTioN." Desired effect, thwarted.

You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. - Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural

Trump and Pence, together, made them cross the Rubicon.