Are you referring to the defense’s assertion that even though great care was taken by the FBI to ensure that no individual file would move from one box to another, the ordering within an individual box was not preserved and constituted a “spoilation” of the evidence?
Or are you referring to something else that I’m not yet aware of?
The difference here is that the journalist got passed information by people who were committing the same crime Trump did. Trump directly committed his crime. The two are not equal.
Furthermore, Trump is no journalist, nor did he steal the secret files for journalistic purposes.