The full indictment against former President Donald Trump was unveiled Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom, the first act in his ongoing legal peril and a watershed moment for the nation.

In typical fashion, a seething Trump appeared before supporters after his arraignment to decry the charges as a witch hunt, declaring he did nothing wrong. Despite his ire, he is now the first American president to be criminally charged and could face trial in the midst of his 2024 campaign for the presidency.

Heres what you should know about the charges:

Trump was indicted on 34 charges and prosecutors laid out a pattern of buying damaging stories.

All 34 felonies are linked to falsified business records in the $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, but prosecutors laid out a pattern of Trump purchasing the rights to damaging stories about him.

The 34 charges relate to the way the payments to Daniels, made by Trumps fixer Michael Cohen, were recorded. Prosecutors have charged Trump with falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up a criminal act, saying they were legal expenses when Cohen hadnt actually done any legal work for him in the time period.