President Trump has a disturbing and downright false explanation for why America's coronavirus deaths are continuing to rise.
While rallying in Michigan on Friday, Trump once again took aim at the U.S.'s coronavirus case and death counts, which are indisputably the highest in the world. But Trump didn't quite get the indisputable part of all that, claiming that doctors are only driving up death counts to make money.
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