Is this what Schumer meant when he said “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you"
I don't think Schumer was referring to Hoft just making crap up out of thin air.
In Waltz' actual statement quoted by that maggot Jim Hoft, Waltz said there was
speculation (his exact word) that maybe Mattis did know but didn't tell anyone because he thought Trump was volatile. Waltz mentioned Mattis because Mattis was one of the key folks in the last Administration who hadn't yet publicly come out and said "I never heard of this", so he was waiting for Mattis to do that. Waltz
never claimed that Mattis did know -- just that it was a possibility unless Mattis addressed it, which he now has and said "I didn't know". And of course, given that it wouldn't have been Mattis himself on the radar or whatever, there would be a whole bunch of other military folks who would know that it was passed up the chain to Mattis, it would be known very quickly if he was lying.
But now Mattis has come out and said "Nope, I never heard anything like this", and nobody has come out to refute it. And yet, Hoft is still misquoting Waltz and calling Mattis a liar. That guy is the Don Lemon of the right.