Bush Jokes His Mother May Have Abused Him

Jeb Bush said that his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, is “not as great as everybody thinks she is,” Politico reports.

Said Bush: “I jokingly say that when we were growing up in Midland, in Houston, that mom was fortunate not to have a child-abuse hotline available.”

He explained that that “the discipline of learning right and wrong was her doing.”