//Trump’s latest defense on Covid-19 is a false attack on health care workers

Trump’s latest defense on Covid-19 is a false attack on health care workers

President Trump addresses supporters at a campaign rally on November 1, 2020, in the metro Detroit area in Michigan. | John Moore/Getty Images

Trump says doctors are overcounting Covid-19 deaths. In reality, the death toll is probably an undercount.

Jason Miller, a senior campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, defended the president’s attacks on frontline health care workers on ABC’s This Week Sunday — and refused to repudiate Trump’s false claims about Covid-19 deaths.

Recently on the campaign trail — like when Trump took the stage at a rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, near Detroit on Friday — the president has pushed a baseless conspiracy theory that “our doctors get more money if someone dies from Covid,” and that they are inflating the Covid-19 death toll because of this.

There is, of course, no evidence for either part of that theory — either that