Jeb Bush says he “would kill baby Hitler”

Another person, apparently referring to Mr Bush’s pro-life stance, tweeted: “So it’s not okay to kill babies, except for that one”. Its magazine polled readers last month and found that many of its readers would kill Adolf Hitler as a baby.

“I’ve gotta figure out which ones are not X-rated”, Bush joked.

Jeb Bush’s campaign to become the third member of his family to be USA president is not going well.

The presidential biography, penned by Jon Meacham, says that Bush’s top political adviser Lee Atwater was approached by Trump to notify him that he would not mind being considered for the presidential ticket.

“Given their closeness while governing, I find the whole thing baffling”, said Stuart Stevens, a Republican strategist who oversaw Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

“It said, ‘If you could go back in time and kill baby Hitler, would you?”

Mr Bush wryly tweeted on Monday: “Gotta do it”, referring to the Huffington Post item.

And now eager to promote “Reply All”, his aforementioned thrilling book of emails, Jeb has finally gotten in on a weeks old Twitter meme about the hypothetical fate of baby Hitler.

Bush was then asked the question directly via the email address that he distributes widely to public audiences: Jeb@jeb.org.

“I took on very powerful interests”, Bush said, “just as Scott Walker has done, to expand the voucher program in the same way in this state”.

Citing the popular Back to the Future film franchise, Bush acknowledged that time travel can cause messy and unforeseen consequences.