[TruthWillWin]

There are a few tweets that point this out: “is/was a friend of mine”

Listen to it again, start at about 19 seconds:

https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1277435470369218560

He says "Thats John John, who is a friend of mine. No was!

Then he said: He was getting ready, was willing to sell George Magazine..."

[Miss Didi]

He says "Thats John John, who is a friend of mine. No was!

Then he said: He was getting ready, was willing to sell George Magazine..."

I get choked up every time I listen.

[reed13k]

To me it sounds like ‘who’s a friend of mine’ but a bit longer...I interpret it as a slurred [as in slid together] ‘who was’.

[bitt]