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Trump was acquitted of each fees by the Republican Senate majority, 52-forty eight on abuse of energy and 53-forty seven on obstruction of Congress. Trump and Congress ended the shutdown by approving short-term funding that offered delayed payments to authorities employees however no funds for the wall. In May 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI, special counsel for the Department of Justice (DOJ) ordering him to "examine 'any hyperlinks and/or coordination between the Russian authorities' and the Trump marketing campaign." He privately told Mueller to restrict the investigation to criminal matters "in connection with Russia's 2016 election interference". James Pfiffner, professor of coverage and government at George Mason University, wrote in 2019 that Trump lies differently from earlier presidents, because he offers "egregious false statements which are demonstrably opposite to effectively-identified information"; these lies are the "most important" of all Trump lies. His international policy was marked by reward and help of populist, neo-nationalist and authoritarian governments.