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Donald Trump is coming to the defense of Roger Ailes as the executive faces a lawsuit and accusations of sexual harassment by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. | Getty Donald Trump defends Roger Ailes

A few months ago, Fox News CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes and Donald Trump were exchanging tense statements over anchor Megyn Kelly and whether Trump would participate in a Fox News debate.

Now Trump is coming to the defense of Ailes as the executive faces a lawsuit and accusations of sexual harassment by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

"I think they are unfounded just based on what I've read," Trump told the Washington Examiner. "Totally unfounded, based on what I read."

It's a much different tone than Trump has expressed before. Back when Trump was bashing Kelly over her tough line of questioning at the first Republican debate and was protesting her presence at a January debate, Fox released a statement mocking Trump.

"We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings," it read.

The facetious statement was meant at the time to redirect the heat off of Kelly.

Ailes and Trump have known each other at least 30 years, but the relationship has seen its moments of tension.

"It's a friendly relationship, surprisingly enough," Ailes told AdWeek in November. "I did call him after the first go-round and I said, 'What the hell is wrong with you? The United States is at war with every goddamn country in the Middle East and you're at war with Megyn Kelly and you think that looks good? It doesn't look good.'"

Eventually though, Trump and Fox News made up. And Trump hasn't complained about the network in months. In fact, the network has become his de facto home among television news networks — Trump hasn't granted an interview to CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC or CBS since last month but has been appearing on Fox several times a week. Trump is expected to appear on the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" this Sunday.