Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. denigrated students and staff alike in several newly obtained emails dating back to 2008 — one in which he called a student “emotionally imbalanced and physically retarded,” according to a new report.

The comments, contained in email exchanges with colleagues obtained by Reuters, range from labeling some students at the Lynchburg, Virginia, evangelical Christian university as “social misfits” to calling the school’s police chief a “half-wit.”

“I talked to [name of student] today,” Falwell wrote in one email from 2010. “[He] is emotionally imbalanced and physically retarded. He is a nice kid but is an easy target for anyone who will give him a little attention. I feel sorry for [him] but he is not a leader among students.”

In another, from 2011, Falwell allegedly called Ronald Sones, then the dean of the engineering school, “a bag of hot air” who “couldn’t spell the word profit.” Sones could not be reached be Reuters.

He also branded campus police chief Richard Hinkley as “a half-wit and easy to manipulate” who shouldn’t be allowed to speak publicly. He, too, couldn’t be reached for comment.

In an email obtained from 2012, Falwell sharply criticized Liberty’s associate athletics director Kevin Keys. “Only get Kevin involved in something if you want it not to work,” he allegedly wrote.

When contacted by Reuters, Keys only replied, “I don’t know anything about that and I would prefer not to comment.”

In another email to officials from 2012, Falwell allegedly dismissed students’ parents who begged the school not to relocate their kids from on-campus dorms to off-campus housing in the middle of their freshman year. At the time, Liberty was looking to raze some dorms to build new ones.

“Tell them, if they keep complaining, we’ll tear them down over Thanksgiving break!” Falwell allegedly wrote.

In a 2015 email, Falwell is said to have blasted students who tried to avoid Liberty parking fees by using an off-campus lot.

“These students need to learn to play by the rules or they can go to another college,” he allegedly said. “I’m tired of this crap. Thanks! Jerry.”

When Reuters asked Falwell to comment on excerpts and summaries of the emails included in the article, David Corry, Liberty’s general counsel, replied that the university wouldn’t respond “without knowing the details or seeing email chains in their entirety.”

The emails emerge just as Falwell, who has served at Liberty since 2008 and has publicly endorsed President Donald Trump, asked the feds to investigate whether former board members and employees at the nonprofit university may have broken the law by divulging internal school documents to the media.

That request followed reports by Reuters and Politico describing how Falwell has managed the private institution.

Falwell told the Associated Press Tuesday that he’d contacted the FBI, adding that the email disclosures were an “attempted coup” — with the goal of booting him from the university. The FBI declined to comment.

With Post wires