“Look, anti-Semitic images, they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign,” Ryan said during a radio interview with Charlie Sykes on WTMJ in Milwaukee. “Candidates should know that. The tweet’s been deleted. We’ve got to get back to the issues that matter.”

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Sykes pointed out to Ryan that this marked the fifth time the Speaker had publicly rebuked Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking elected Republican and chairman of this month’s Republican National Convention, acknowledged that one of those times was when Trump refused to forcefully disavow an endorsement from white supremacist David Duke.

“I really believe he’s got to clean up how his new media works,” Ryan said. “I understand this was done by staff and not by he himself. … They’ve got to clean this up."