President Donald Trump praised Fox News in a tweet early Monday for its report that a senior US intelligence official allegedly unmasked the names of Trump associates.

“Such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by @foxandfriends. ‘Spied on before nomination.’ The real story,” he posted at 6:15 a.m.

“Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy on Monday morning highlighted the network’s “bombshell report about the unmasking of the Trump team.”

Fox reporters Malia Zimmerman and Adam Housley cited an unnamed source Friday that the intelligence official was “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world.”

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) knows who is behind the alleged unmasking of private citizens and the person is not in the FBI, which is probing Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, according to the Fox report.

Nunes knew about the unmasking since January and obtained the information well before Trump sent out an unsubstantiated tweet March 4 accusing former President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election, the report said.

FBI Director James Comey and top lawmakers on congressional panels investigating Russia’s meddling have yet to confirm evidence of Trump’s wiretapping claims.

The president has since suggested that by “wiretapping,” he meant surveillance in a broader sense.

“Adam Housley did an incredible job with this information,” “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said, Politico reported.

“We heard germs of it, that it was beginning to take root during Friday’s show. But right after Friday’s show, we were able to get a perspective on basically what President Trump thought a month ago when he went out and tweeted on Saturday morning. Man, I guess on some level he saw some things that only somebody surveilling his administration would know,” he said.

Doocy added that “what Trump was saying is turning out to be true.”