Much as he hated admitting it, he knew that time did actor into so many things. And this, it was probably one of them. Loki had been here for years, so naturally they were quicker to flock to his defense, right? "Maybe it's the fact that Nik doesn't regret anything he's done. or what he will do, because he accepts anything that he ever has done or ever will do is exactly what he needed to do at the time to get what he wanted."
"No, you're right," she had a point. He was even more helpless in this situation than he had been during the explosion at the complex and Nik had kept himself contained, hadn't outwardly lash out at anyone in Lawrence for Caroline's televised deaths. "he managed it. He dealt with it. He waited it out." But would other people see it that way? He wasn't sure there was anything they could do about that.