Don Jr.: O'Keefe doing 'great service' The candidate's son praises, and mischaracterizes, the sting videos

Donald Trump Jr. praised the Republican operative who released a hidden-camera video purporting to show Democrats planning to instigate violence at Donald Trump rallies.

"He did a great job," Trump Jr. said in a spin room interview on Fox News Channel with Sean Hannity, who pointed out the operative, James O'Keefe, nearby. "He's doing the American people a great service by highlighting this."


If the same undercover video came out with Republicans, Democrats would run the Republican nominee out of the country, his son said after Wednesday's presidential debate.

"The double standard that exists between the liberals and the conservatives is disgusting," Trump Jr. said. "If you look at it as an American, as a human, and you're not totally disgusted, there's something wrong with you."

Hannity and Trump characterized the videos as evidence of voter fraud. But the videos actually showed two Democrats discussing sending plants to stir trouble at Trump rallies.

The Democrats, Robert Creamer and Scott Foval, left their jobs this week after O'Keefe and his group, Project Veritas Action, released the edited videos. The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee disavowed the tactics Creamer and Foval described and denied they ever actually took place.

Interim DNC chair Donna Brazile called O'Keefe “a convicted criminal with a history of doctoring video to advance his ideological agenda.” O'Keefe pleaded guilty in 2010 to entering former Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office under false pretenses.

Trump Jr. used the sting videos to support his father's refusal during the debate to accept the results of the election.

"We'll accept a fair result, but we're not going to accept something when they say, 'We've been doing this for 50 years,'" Trump Jr. said. "The rules only apply to conservatives, apparently."