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Every cell in Donald Trump’s brain connected to his ego according to scans

A leaked scan of Donald Trump’s brain has proven most enlightening in revealing how the most powerful man in America’s thought processes work.

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Dr Nora Ollagist, noted brain expert, was available for comment:

“It’s unlike any human brain we’ve ever seen – which does support the claim made by some that he is in fact not human. For one thing it’s far too small, the image was pushed up to full magnification to get even that tiny dot. Moreover, in a normal human brain the ego is just a small part of it, whereas here it has a connection to every single brain cell, we checked and double-checked. This means that his every conscious or unconscious thought is channelled through his ego, meaning that he is incapable of saying or doing anything that is not entirely self-serving.”

U.S. Officials Suspect Russian Involvement in Mystery Attacks Against American Diplomats in Cuba and China: Report

What made U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China severely sick over the past two years? We still don’t know for sure. But U.S. officials now suspect that the Russian government might have had something to do with it. At least that’s the theory being floated by anonymous sources to NBC News.

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The theory that Russia is behind the attacks, which has resulted in some diplomats experiencing permanent brain damage, is reportedly based on signals intelligence (SIGINT) collected by the FBI, CIA, and other unnamed intelligence agencies. SIGINT can include everything from text messages and voice calls to Morse code and radio waves, but the new report from NBC News doesn’t specify what may have been intercepted.

The precise motive remains unclear, but the incidents have driven a wedge between the U.S. and Cuba that has led Washington to remove most of its diplomats and spies from the island. Early in the investigation, senior U.S. officials raised the possibility the illnesses were unintended consequences of some new spying technology. But the fact the incidents continued long after they became publicly known has cast doubt on the possibility that the damage was accidental.

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Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His Twitter handle is@brainyacts. Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com.