Among the latest controversies bubbling up around the Trump campaign is the endorsement of Trump last week by former boxer and convicted rapist, Mike Tyson. This sort of unwanted attention would likely hobble a normal presidential candidate for at least a news cycle or two — but Trump, who has built his campaign on misogyny and racism, has absorbed the notorious rapist’s endorsement without missing a beat.

Now Buzzfeed has found a video clip from an NBC News report at the time of Tyson’s rape conviction in which Trump accused Tyson’s victim — an 18-year-old beauty queen — of asking for it.

In the 1980s, Donald Trump promoted boxer Mike Tyson’s fights, several of which were held at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, N.J. In 1992, after Tyson was convicted of raping a young beauty queen, Trump — who called himself Tyson’s “business adviser” — not only came to Tyson’s defense, he smeared the 18-year-old victim.

TRUMP: You have a young woman that was in his hotel room late in the evening at her own will. You have a young woman seen dancing for the beauty contest—dancing with a big smile on her face, looked happy as can be. It’s my opinion that to a large extent, Mike Tyson was railroaded in this case.

Soon after Tyson’s trial, his victim claimed she’d been offered $1 million to drop the charges.

Of course, it’s unlikely Trump cared whether Tyson had raped the young beauty queen or even whether she “asked for it.” What he cared about was money.

According to Mother Jones:

Over the years, Tyson’s bouts had been highly lucrative for Trump’s casinos, which paid millions to host the fights but reaped millions more in revenues from the surge in gambling that resulted during these highly anticipated events. In 1991, Tyson seemed destined for one of the biggest fights of his career, a face-off with then-heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. As the groundwork was laid for this epic bout, it seemed like Trump might lose this event to his competitors in Las Vegas.

Desperate to protect the prospective proceeds from the fight, Trump — who claims to be the ultimate deal maker — tried and failed to strike a cockamamie deal in which Tyson would serve no time, go forward with the Holyfield fight and pay the victim a cut of the proceeds.

Trump’s statements at the time seem to underscore what journalists and others who have been following him for decades now believe — the “Dirtbag Donnie” persona he displays at his campaign events is not a character he’s portraying, it is who he is. He won’t drop his thuggish behavior and become more presidential after he wins the GOP nomination, as his new lobbyist/campaign manager recently claimed, because he can’t.

Here’s what Trump told a reporter from Newsday at the time of Tyson’s rape conviction:

Now you could always say, ‘Well, then, rich people are going to be able to buy themselves (out of trouble). That’s not necessarily true. This is a case that’s unique … The case could be made, well, you shouldn’t be allowed to buy yourself out, as perhaps the prosecutor would say … But a lot more people can benefit by what I’m suggesting than by throwing a man in jail, virtually with no money — because by the time this ends he won’t have any money — by throwing a man in jail, virtually penniless.

Instead, you let him go out, he would have made between $15 million and $30 million in his next fight: tremendous amount of money, tremendous amount of good (it) can be doing … Millions and millions of dollars could pour in to help people that were truly hurt, that won’t have anything and that will live penniless without it. And I think a lot people, a lot of people, can be helped if this is properly handled.

Of course, millions and millions of dollars would have also gone into Trump’s own gold-gilded coffers as well.

Tyson eventually served three years in prison. He later fought Evander Holyfield, and while the venue for the fight was not a Trump casino, the Donald claimed to have placed a $1 million bet against Tyson that paid off $20 million when Tyson lost.

Here’s the unsurprising kicker: Bookmakers in Las Vegas were adamant that no one, especially including Donald Trump, had received a $20 million payoff on the fight.