Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller then put out a hilarious and blatantly false statement, not even in Trump's name, that said Clinton had started the birtherism and Trump had gotten the birth certificate to put an end to the "ugly" (!) episode. NO, really. Miller had the temerity to write: "In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate." The statement also said Trump now believes the first African-American president was born in the United States. (Trump has been asked several times about this in the past couple of weeks and refused to reject the birtherism hooey.) Reporters quickly resurfaced Trump tweets continuing the mantra of birtherism in 2015 and 2016.