These were the top political stories of 2023

One of the biggest stories of the year was former President Donald Trump being indicted in four different cases.

At the start of 2023, a lot of people expected politics to be a bit stale, but it ended up being anything but boring.

Let's start with one major story – the Trump indictments.

In April, Donald Trump became the first former president to face a felony indictment.

"Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump was arraigned on a New York Supreme Court indictment returned by a Manhattan grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records," Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said after Trump's arraignment.

Those 34 felony charges are linked to alleged hush money payments, but that case was just the beginning.