Billionaire investor Sam Zell said he’s concerned about the “cacophony” surrounding President Donald Trump, but that none of the revelations this week suggest that Trump is unfit to hold office.

“I’m a citizen of the United States and I’m counting on the president to be a leader,” Zell said in an interview on Bloomberg Television from the SkyBridge Alternatives conference in Las Vegas. “I think the president has the competence, and all this unfit-for-office stuff is a bunch of stuff.”

Zell, a real estate investor and founder of Chicago-based Equity Group Investments, said he recalls no other president who’s been subject to so many leaks and political innuendos. The volume of information intended to damage the president should be treated with some skepticism, he said.

“I’m not exactly sympathetic with the president, but I am very sympathetic that it just keeps happening,” Zell said.

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