Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump for outsourcing jobs at his companies. | Getty Clinton: Trump sheds 'crocodile tears' over outsourcing jobs

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday painted Donald Trump's championing of working-class voters as a hypocritical ploy, accusing him of shedding "crocodile tears" while outsourcing jobs when building his own businesses.

"Donald has bought Chinese steel and aluminum — in fact, the Trump hotel right here in Las Vegas was made with Chinese steel," Clinton said at the third presidential debate in Las Vegas. "So he goes around with crocodile tears about how terrible it is. But he has given jobs to Chinese steel workers, not American steel workers."


Trump, who has made protectionist trade policy a central theme of his campaign, shot back with an attack on Clinton's decades in government, part of his effort to cast her as an out-of-touch insider.

"The one thing you have over me is experience. But it is bad experience because what you've done has turned out badly," Trump said. "For 30 years you've been in a position to help. If you say that I used steel or I used something else, make it impossible for me to do. That I wouldn't mind. The problem is, you talk but you don't get anything done, Hillary."

Clinton responded with a resume comparison.

"In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights," Clinton said. "He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, and called her an eating machine. And on the day when I was in the situation room monitoring the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was hosting The Celebrity Apprentice."

"If we could run our country the way I've run my company, we would have a country that would you would be so proud of," Trump replied, defending his own business record.