OK, this is not really what The New York Times wrote in its editorial (the actual editorial can be found here). But it does closely track what the Times' editorial accuses Trump of doing, and the Times' accusations about a Trump "nexus" with Russia are just about as flimsy.
This is an actual quite from the article you linked. Even the dude writing the article thinks his argument that the Russians are in bed with the Clintons is dumb.

The point of the article wasn't to show that Clinton was tied to the Russians. It was to make fun of a piece that tied Russians to Trump.

I mean...seriously lol