Trump needs to 'clean up' his tweets, Ryan says
WASHINGTON _ Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan said that a tweet that Donald Trump's campaign sent out attacking Hillary Clinton, which appeared to have an image of the Star Of David, is another sign that the campaign has to fix its social media messaging.
"I really believe he has got to clean up the way his new media works," Ryan said in an interview on the Wisconsin radio station WTMJ.
Ryan, R-Wis., told host Charlie Sykes that the tweet is a distraction and blasted the campaign staffer who posted the image of Hillary Clinton with the words "most corrupt politician ever" inside a Star of David.
"Look, anti-Semitic images have got no place in a presidential campaign. Candidates should know that," Ryan said. "The tweet has been deleted. I don't know what flunky put this up there, but obviously they got to fix that. We got to get back to the issues that matter to the public."
Trump campaign spokesman Dan Scavino said in a statement that the image in question was selected for being a sheriff's badge, not the Star of David, and Scavino chose to take down that tweet because he never wants to offend anyone.
_CQ-Roll Call
