No dispute from me. I think you (and Buckeye McFrog) are 100% correct.
Not sure if it was deliberate on Pence’s part, or if he was just deceived by especially skillful deceivers. But no matter; what happened needs to be rectified, pronto.
IMO Pence got himself bogged down in the minutia of managing PPG supply chains and took his eye off the ball of message control, which was actually THE MOST IMPORTANT job of this task force.
Kind of stunning that a guy with his experience would make that mistake, which I guess fuels speculation that it was deliberate.