{"id":356570,"date":"2026-09-25T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356570\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:08:30","slug":"fact-check-fake-new-york-times-videos-of-leonardo-dicaprio-eric-braeden-other-celebs-falsely-claim-they-support-all-democrats-are-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356570\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: FAKE New York Times Videos Of Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden, Other Celebs, Falsely Claim They Support ‘All Democrats Are Criminals’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do videos falsely attributed to the New York Times show actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden, Annie Potts and Patrick Fabian supporting the “All Democrats Are Criminals” movement? No, that’s not true: Braeden’s rep told Lead Stories the claim is false. The videos use clips from Cameo accounts and MTV News and add completely fabricated sound and captions.<\/p>\n

The claim appeared in three videos included in a post<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) by the @ireneconc account on X on Sept. 18, 2026. The caption of the post read:<\/p>\n

This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:<\/p>\n

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Image source: post by @ireneconc on X.<\/p>\n

There are three videos in the post on X and all of them have a New York Times logo<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) in the upper right corner. All of these videos were originally published on Cameo, with additional added clips of politicians. None of these videos were published by the New York Times.<\/p>\n

Braeden’s publicist Charles Sherman told Lead Stories via email on Sept. 24, 2026, that the claim that Braeden announced his support for the “All Democrats Are Criminals” campaign was “Totally false.”<\/p>\n

In Braeden’s real Cameo video<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) he is wearing a black shirt and glasses while sitting in a car. This is a screenshot from Braeden’s Cameo account at the time of writing:<\/p>\n

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(Image source: post by Eric Braden on Cameo.)<\/p>\n

This video matches the footage that opens the video on X where a voice that sounds like Braeden’s says “I’m joining Leonardo DiCaprio’s All Democrats Are Criminals campaign.” However, Braeden doesn’t say this in the real Cameo video. This is a screenshot of the image of DiCaprio that is shown in the video:<\/p>\n

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Image source: post by @MTVNews on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Potts’ video matches one from her Cameo account<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) with her short hair and brown turtleneck. She does not talk about the “All Democrats Are Criminals” campaign. This is a screenshot of Potts’ Cameo video taken at the time of writing:<\/p>\n

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(Image source: Annie Potts on Cameo.)<\/p>\n

Fabian’s videos also open with clips from his Cameo account<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) where he is wearing a blue suit and tie and sitting in a green chair. He does not bring up the “All Democrats Are Criminals” campaign at all. This is a screenshot of Fabian’s Cameo video taken at the time of writing:<\/p>\n

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(Image source: Patrick Fabian on Cameo.)<\/p>\n

Lead Stories searched the New York Times<\/a> website (archived here<\/a>) for news stories about Braeden, DiCaprio, Potts and Fabian supporting the “All Democrats Are Criminals” campaign and did not find any matching reports.<\/p>\n

Had the New York Times actually reported that these celebrities were supporting the “All Democrats Are Criminals” campaign, it would have been major news. Searches of Google News<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) and Yahoo News<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) showed other fact checks of the videos but did not find any credible reports of the actors making the alleged statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do videos falsely attributed to the New York Times show actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden, Annie Potts and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132831,2132,132830,7076,7075,32493,9,11,10,132832],"class_list":["post-356570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-annie-potts","tag-democrats","tag-eric-braeden","tag-image-source","tag-lead-stories","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-patrick-fabian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}