Donald Trump is attacking Hillary Clinton these days, but eight years ago, in the midst of the 2008 Democratic primary race, he said she would “make a good president” and a lot of people thought pairing her with Barack Obama would be a “dream ticket.”

His kind words for Clinton came in a previously unreported clip from “Trumped!,” a syndicated radio feature that aired from 2004 to 2008 and consisted of a daily commentary of about 60 seconds from the real-estate mogul.

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On the radio feature, a little-known chapter in Trump’s media career, he presented his thoughts about everything from tattoos — he didn’t like them — to Michael Jackson’s child-molestation trial, in which he sided with the late pop star.

His comments were sometimes light-hearted, but Trump also weighed in on politics and policy matters, illuminating how some of his views have evolved or reversed since he began his presidential run.

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In comments that presage recent controversies over Trump’s attitude toward women, he suggested in the radio commentaries that marriage made a pop star less sexy, expressed incredulity over a college chastity club and said he was surprised to hear that most women disapproved of one-night stands. “I thought today’s women were independent and had a lot of sexual freedom,” he said in April 2006. “Well, I guess they fooled me.”

In the early 2008 broadcast on Clinton, aired as she and Obama still were dueling for the Democratic nomination, Trump said that “at least one member of [Obama’s] team said Clinton would make a good vice president. Well, I know her, and she’d make a good president or a good vice president.”

He continued: “A lot of people think a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton pairing would be a dream ticket in November.” Trump’s prior support for Clinton is well known. He donated to her 2008 campaign and has backed other Democrats at times. He has said that as a New York businessman, he needed to curry favor with his senator.

An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.