Clinton: While I was in the Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden raid, Trump was hosting Celebrity Apprentice


Hillary Clinton was more than happy on Wednesday night to spend part of the final presidential debate comparing the things she has done over the past 30 years to what Donald Trump has accomplished.
"In the 1970s, I worked for the Children's Defense Fund and was taking on discrimination against African American kids in schools," she said. "He was getting sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in his apartment buildings." Clinton gave more examples from the 1980s and 1990s, but got a real zinger in when talking about recent history. "On the day I was in the Situation Room monitoring the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was hosting the Celebrity Apprentice," she said. Trump actually didn't seem too bothered by this, merely nodding his head.
Clinton told Trump she was glad to "compare my 30 years of experience, what I've done for this country, trying to help in every way I could, especially kids and families, get ahead and stay ahead, with your 30 years." Trump responded by saying he believes he's done "a much better job" over the past three decades than Clinton, having built a company with the "greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars." If the U.S. was run the way Trump has operated his business, he said, "we would have a country you would be so proud of."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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