It is a bit of both. I also think he flat out lies. Remember his 150.000 % ROI ? That was a big fat lie. And probably he is talking overly positive because he really believes that by doing that price will start soaring. He really overestimates the power of the people on bitcointalk

. At the same time, I also think he has a lot of money in AMP and therefore he is emotionally attached to the coin. This completely shuts down his rational reasoning.
He has to grow some balls and take his loss , his shilling last month's created more and more victims who lost a lot of money on AMP
O no , ''the price has crashed because trolls like DefendKebab and Diego24'' complete nonsense of-course.
The price crashed because fraudulent and incompetent behaviors by the devs , fact.