All right, thank you, Anderson.

I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

Now, we know the president lied to you about the worst medical crisis in our generation.

We know he encouraged you to do things that were bad for your health, ignoring masks,

going to crowded rallies, defying governors who told you the truth about the need to

socially distance and shut down for a while.

A remaining question is, why would he do this?

Now early on, when it was mostly blue states and minorities getting sick and the largest

numbers in the biggest cities, remember that?

Well, that seemed to be out of convenience for Trump, right?

About playing to party.

I know that sounds wicked, but after what you just heard on this tape, can you really

say it's not a legitimate question about whether he would do that, whether he would

sacrifice people for his own benefit?

Really?

Didn't he already tell you he would do that in not so many words?

But I don't know about that theory that it was just about the blue states because he

kept up the same perfidy, the faithlessness with his own base.

In fact, I argue to you, the facts make it clear he did use supporters more dirty because

he kept telling you, especially, to go where you could get sick and not wear a mask.

Talk about eating your own.

He wanted to con us about COVID so badly he put the people counting on him most in the

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