Bush says he’d kill ‘baby Hitler’ if he could travel in time

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Rye, N.H. Bush has a plan for the Republican presidential debate in Wisconsin on Tuesday night: Don’t treat it like a debate. While he acknowledges he’s got to be better on the debate stage, Bush says he’s spending less time rehearsing this time. He sees the prime-time forum as more of a moderated conversation than a real debate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Rye, N.H. Bush has a plan for the Republican presidential debate in Wisconsin on Tuesday night: Don’t treat it like a debate. While he acknowledges he’s got to be better on the debate stage, Bush says he’s spending less time rehearsing this time. He sees the prime-time forum as more of a moderated conversation than a real debate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

By Associated Press November 9, 2015 1 min read

DES MOINES, Iowa — Presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he once got an email asking if he would go back in time, if it were possible, and kill the baby Adolf Hitler.

“It said, ‘If you could go back in time and kill baby Hitler, would you? I need to know,'” Bush told a Huffington Post reporter on the Bush campaign bus in New Hampshire last week.

Bush’s answer, according to the video clip: “Hell, yeah, I would. Look, you gotta step up man.”

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

The typically dry-humored Bush, labeled by rival Donald Trump as “low energy,” has shown a more carefree side lately.