For every opinion piece the NYT runs they reject 100+. The odds are even worse for becoming a contributor or columnist. Using that real estate for poorly reasoned crap, especially anti-democratic crap that doesn’t withstand basic journalistic scrutiny, is an active choice.
In fact many NYT editors would recognize it as a disinformation technique! Many would call it voter suppression, though I tend to reserve that term for actively preventing someone from voting.
Almost every crackpot thing out of his mouth comes from some Greek guy with a pro Russian channel, so when he said this, I assumed that's where it came from.
