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In September 2017, NBA star Lebron James (now with the Los Angeles Lakers) called President Donald Trump a bum on Twitter in response to Trump's withdrawing an invitation for recent NBA champion Steph Curry to visit the White House: James' message, which ended up being one of the most retweeted posts of the year, drew criticism from many of President Trump's supporters, and in November 2018, nearly a year after the social media exchange, an open letter supposedly written by freelance reporter Hal Lundgren criticizing Lebron James for his comment was widely circulated on social media. A portion of that open letter is reproduced below: Hal Lundgren is a freelance reporter whose work has been published in outlets such as the Houston Chronicle. However, we could not find a copy of this letter in the digital pages of the newspaper's web site (Chron.com) not in the archives of other online publications in which Lundgren's work has appeared (such as LMT Online). The earliest version of this letter we uncovered was published in September 2018 in the Doug's Rants section of the Santa Clarita Gazette, but that version was not attributed to Hal Lundgren. Doug Sutton, who manages the Doug's Rants section of the paper, introduced an abbreviated version of the letter and stated it was written by an unnamed third party: We've attempted to contact Hal Lundgren to find out if he truly authored this missive but haven't been successful in eliciting a response so far. What we can say is that we didn't find this letter at Chron.com, where Lundgren publishes his work, and we have not found Lundgren's byline attached to the letter in any other credible publication. Furthermore, it appears that this letter was attributed to a nameless third party before Lundgren's name was tacked on to the bottom of the text.
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