In the forthcoming chronicle of [President] Trump’s White House, “Fear,” Woodward writes that the president privately called [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions a “traitor,” saying: “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner . . . He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” …

“I’m a Southerner, people can judge my intellect, my IQ, by my product and what I produce rather than what somebody else says,” Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said in an interview.

“We’re a pretty smart bunch. We lost the Civil War, but I think we’re winning the economic war since then … I’m not gonna get into name calling because I don’t think you should be allowed to call names — including the president,” he added.