I don’t know much Spanish, but I would ALWAYS trust a native speaker more than Google translate, in every language.
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
Well she may, but correct Spanish it is not. Del mar al lago, for instance, would be OK. Mar-a-Lago is not grammatically correct Spanish, the strange capitalization even less, an the hyphens are not Spanish at all in this use (link in Spanish, explaining the uses of hyphens).
Because Google Translate assumes that is what is meant, Google is not so bad at dealing with errors and imprecisions (at least it is not worse than dealing with correct sentences). It still is not correct. It is a word for word translation of a grammatically incorrect sentence. If you give Google Translate the correct input, for instance del mar al lago (now that is Spanish!), it will also translate from the sea to the lake. BTW, from the sea to the lake is correct, Sea-to-Lake is not really a complete English sentence either, IMO. It reads like Twitterish. Oh, wait…
If CFSG ever sold any of these documents, that would be neck-stretch territory, wouldn’t it?
English generally doesn’t use grammatical sentences or even clauses for place names, so maybe our expectations are different than native Spanish speakers’.
Yeah, it’s a place (house) name. Not any kind of sentence.
This. Trump did not name the house.
Sure you don’t? But the individual words are Spanish, or supposed to be, only all three together are not. And you say The Empire State Building, right, you don’t leave the The out or something. Names are usually grammatically correct in English. Never mind, enough of this diversion before it becomes a hijack and Aspenglow remids us to stay focused. I rest my case. And I am right, of course.
re: How Trump got the top secret documents. I think it’s been answered generally, but I wanted to try and spell out exactly how the documents would have gone from someone else to Trump. I’m going for clarity over accuracy.
The President can be briefed every day about all the super important things going on in the world - the President’s Daily Briefing (PDB) - some do 1x day, others 1x week. The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) summarizes a lot of very classified information and updates the President. The PDB can be oral or in document form, or both. Depends on the President. If I had to guess, I’d say this is where a lot of the Top Secret documents are, and the point it originated into Trumps possession. Further, if the President wants follow-up info, more documents would be supplied.
And that’s mostly likely along the lines of how he got most of the documents. We know it happens and we know it can contain super classified (Top Secret) information. You can see some declassified PDB here.
As was frequently reported during Trump’s administration, he often paid little attention during those briefings, and allegedly wouldn’t read detailed reports – he preferred oral briefings, and when he did look at written documents, he preferred pictures, charts, and short lists of bullet points.
Here’s Axios take on PDBs:
- Despite his general resistance to studying intelligence, Trump reportedly sought to hold onto some of the more riveting documents he was personally interested in.
What they’re saying: “Often the president would say [to intelligence briefers], ‘Well, can I keep this?’ And in my experience, the intelligence briefers most often would say, ‘Well, sir, we’d prefer to take that back.’ But sometimes they forgot,” former national security adviser John Bolton told CBS News.
Former acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney corroborated that account, telling CNN: “From time to time, the president would say ‘Can I keep this?’”
The New York Times reported that when the National Archives sought to retrieve documents that he had taken, Trump resisted, telling advisers: “It’s not theirs, it’s mine.”
My guess would be 3 turning into 2 (or maybe 1).
That it that it was laziness that resulted in the documents being left at Maralago after Trump stopped being president, but once the national archives told Trump that they wanted them back , he realized that they must be valuable, so he tried to keep some of the juicy ones for himself.
That’s a good point. The President would be briefed on highly classified stuff anywhere the President was at, including Mar-a-Lago. It’s quite possible some of the documents never left Washington (with Trump) and were at Mara-a-Lago to begin with.
Let’s not forget that the LIV Golf tournament (Saudi Arabia’s version of the PGA) was held at the Trump club in Bedminster, NJ at the end of July (7/29 - 7/31). The FBI search occurred in Mar a Lago on 8/8.
Trump stands to make A LOT OF MONEY from LIV. The PGA is distancing themselves from him due to his toxic nature. For his part, Trump has been trashing the PGA pretty harshly as well because we all know how well Trump takes an insult.
Given Trump’s predilection for Quid Pro Quo, do you think Saudi Arabia is teaming up with him out of the goodness of their own hearts? Or are there other deals that were made and in the process of being delivered upon, necessitating the urgent need of a search barely a week after the tournament ended?
I’ve heard it referred to as “sportswashing”; when a company tries to get some good PR by sponsoring a popular sporting event and hope it will make the public forget that they’re evil tyrants.
It’s possible, maybe probable, that the Saudis are using Trump for his name recognition to publicize their golf tournament. But the timing of that and the search warrant can mean trouble, too. Who’s to say? The idea that Trump would negotiate deals using stolen classified information is entirely believable.
President Richard Nixon went to Mar-a-Lago a month before he resigned the Presidency, July 1974.
Trading classified information to a friendly foreign country in exchange for “votes” is very plausible too.
That remains to be seen. If we’re very lucky, that house could be his life sentence.
But we say “Stratford-upon-Avon” not “Stratford upon the Avon” or anything like that. Or “Bexhill-on-Sea” for something more obscure. In a place name, “Sea-to-Lake” would not sound objectionable to me.
Okay, so lets just say that Mar-a-Lago was probably intended to mean sea-to-lake, but named by someone that didn’t really understand Spanish grammar.