--- title: Breaking Down Trump's Four Indictments description: TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains all four of former President Donald Trump's criminal indictments. canonical: https://time.com/6314103/breaking-down-trump-indictments/ author: Jeannie Kopstein article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-09-14T17:33:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T12:44:59.726Z article:section: Politics og:title: Breaking Down Trump's Four Indictments og:description: TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains all four of former President Donald Trump's criminal indictments. og:url: https://time.com/6314103/breaking-down-trump-indictments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ad4251f54a1c64b/698a405c011682357f9836b1/TRUMP_THUMB_NO_LOGO.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1920 og:image:height: 1080 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-INDICTMENT og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Breaking Down Trump's Four Indictments twitter:description: TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains all four of former President Donald Trump's criminal indictments. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ad4251f54a1c64b/698a405c011682357f9836b1/TRUMP_THUMB_NO_LOGO.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Breaking Down Trump's Four Indictments > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) Newspaper front pages with former US President Donald Trump, are displayed at a news stand in New York on March 31, 2023\. - A New York grand jury has voted to indict former US president Donald Trump over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, multiple US media reported on March 30, 2023\. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images by [Jeannie Kopstein](https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/) and [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/) Sep 14, 2023 5:33 PM UTC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6314103/breaking-down-trump-indictments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6314103/breaking-down-trump-indictments/"},"headline":"Breaking Down Trump's Four Indictments","datePublished":"2023-09-14T17:33:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:44:59.726Z","description":"TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains all four of former President Donald Trump's criminal indictments.","url":"https://time.com/6314103/breaking-down-trump-indictments/","keywords":["Donald Trump","News","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ad4251f54a1c64b/698a405c011682357f9836b1/TRUMP_THUMB_NO_LOGO.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeannie Kopstein","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Bennett","jobTitle":"Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ad4251f54a1c64b/698a405c011682357f9836b1/TRUMP_THUMB_NO_LOGO.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-INDICTMENT","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-INDICTMENT","creditText":"AFP via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6314103/breaking-down-trump-indictments/","name":"Breaking Down Trump's Four Indictments"}}]}] ```