Mike Pence is a jerk.  There’s no way over, under, or around that.  Hell, his jerk tree is so high that an eight legged cat couldn’t climb it.

But, I almost felt sorry for him yesterday.

Pence was jabbering about how there was going to be proof, proof I tell you, that Donald Trump did not grope all those women.  Bless his heart, he was damn near gleeful about it.

“Before the day is out there will be more evidence that calls into question these [sexual assault] allegations,” Pence said Friday morning on CBS.

“Just stay tuned. I know that there is more information that is coming out that will back his claim that this is all categorically false,” he added.

So, we all waited, making notes of how we would word our sincere apology to Donald Trump.

Honey, my Schaden is filled with a ton of Freude.  Scamming Trump got scammed by a scammer.

A British man named Anthony Gilberthorpe has stepped forward to serve as an exculpatory witness for Trump.  He says he was sitting across the aisle from Trump and Jessica Leeds on the airplane flight where Trump was all over her. Gilberthorpe says that Leeds was the aggressor.

Somebody in the Trump campaign should learn to use Google because they would have found a bushel basket of cringeworthy things about Gilberthorpe.  And after yesterday they would have found this.

Grasp that straw, Pence!  You’re more of jerk today than yesterday.