[boublepop]

Assuming he pushed for the announcement to coincide with the preplanned sale he had absolutely no way of knowing how much the stock would potentially jump up.

If a bank robber only manages to get away with 100 dollars because the register is low, you wouldn’t come out defending him saying “well the claim is he only stole 100$, and obviously no one would care about such a small amount, so we can conclude that he didn’t actually try to rob the bank”.