[Well that's bullshit, but calling the guy out is likely to just make him clamp down harder. Time for some quick thinking of his own.]

Eh, I'm kind of undecided. [Also bullshit, mostly.] They seem like assholes, but I think I'd like to hear some more informed perspectives before I make a judgment call.

[And he'll just... leave a space for Malkus to put one of those "informed opinions" into...]