Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Democratic super PAC to hit Trump in battleground states over coronavirus deaths Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE jabbed Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE for questioning President Obama’s birthplace during her first appearance on the stump with the president.

“I was honored to stand with [Obama] at the good times and the bad times, someone who has never forgotten where he came from,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C.

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“And Donald, if you are out there tweeting, it’s Hawaii.”

Before Trump jumped into the Republican presidential race this year, he had waded into national politics as one of the chief agitators of the “birther” movement, questioning whether Obama was born in the United States.

Trump repeatedly needled Obama by asking for him to release a long-form birth certificate in 2011, declaring that he had sent investigators to Hawaii to dig into Obama’s records and telling NBC’s "Today" show: “I’m starting to think that he was not born here.”

But despite his claims, a new New York Times investigation found no evidence that he ever sent investigators to the state.

Democratic critics pushed back with charges of racism, arguing that the allegations were unfounded and racially tinged attacks against America’s first black president.

The White House ultimately released the president’s long-form birth certificate in 2011, proving his birthplace was Hawaii.

Trump has largely avoided the issue during his 2016 campaign, though he told CNN in mid-June that he’d “love” to talk about it, but, “Once I talk about it, that's all [the media] want to write about.”

Clinton appeared with Obama just a few hours after FBI Director James Comey announced the agency would not recommend criminal charges related to her use of a private email setup while serving as secretary of State. Comey did, however, criticize Clinton at length for “extreme carelessness” in handling her emails, many of them classified.