Eh... who cares... it’s just the New York Times. Not like it’s anyone important
Those arbiters of what constitutes “Presidential grace”, the NYT, only wants to paint President Trump in the most unfavorable manner possible, using even the most minute of excuses to parlay this into a potential reason for impeachment and removal from office.
But like the “Russiagate” defamation, it is all an extended attempt to tie something, anything, no matter how tenuous the connection may be, to Trump, and Trump’s response takes its cue from the famous exchange that Lyndon Baines Johnson gave to a reporter who asked him about his relationship to a Texas con man, Billy Sol Estes, who was involved in selling non-existent supplies of anhydrous ammonia to Texas farmers, and who had very recently claimed close ties with LBJ.
“Billy Sol who?”
If this was from the NYT,that’s all you need to know to totally ignore it.