Former President Donald Trump, already under multiple criminal investigations for his coup attempt, has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his role in a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star in the days before the 2016 election.

Trump, who is running again for the Republican nomination for the presidency, in recent days ramped up his appeals to supporters to rise up against prosecutors in New York and elsewhere ― reminiscent of his inflammatory language leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by a mob of his followers.

Trump’s campaign staff did not immediately respond to a HuffPost query Thursday.

The New York Times was the first to report on the still-sealed indictment.

“IT’S TIME!!!” Trump wrote in one of multiple posts in all capital letters earlier this month. “WE JUST CAN’T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE. THEY’RE KILLING OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH. WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!”

The indictment in New York City gives Trump, who frequently claimed that his actions as president were “historic,” another claim to history: He became the first of the 44 ex-chief executives to be charged with a crime. He had previously entered the history books by becoming the only president to be impeached twice.

One of his lawyers at the time, Michael Cohen, already pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating campaign finance laws with the check to Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about the affair she says she had with Trump in 2006. Cohen served 13 months in prison and another year and a half under home confinement for that and various unrelated charges.

Cohen is likely to be a key witness against Trump in District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution. He has said Trump reimbursed him for the $130,000, as well as $150,000 to a second woman, with a series of payments, and evidence during his case showed the money came from Trump’s business as a supposed “legal expense.”

Trump has claimed that Bragg’s probe is a part of a “witch hunt” against him ― the same claim he has used regarding the other criminal investigations he faces as well as his unprecedented two impeachments by the House. He has also called Bragg, who is Black, a “racist.”

Trump originally denied that he had any knowledge of the payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. Then, after Cohen released a tape of a conversation with Trump about the matter, he said that what Cohen did was not illegal.

More recently, after he was given an opportunity to testify before the New York City grand jury hearing the evidence against him, he came up with a new claim: that Daniels was actually blackmailing him.

“I relied on counsel in order to resolve this Extortion of me, which took place a long time ago,” he said in a March 9 post on his own social media platform, Truth Social.

Trump’s staff did not respond to a HuffPost query about that claim.

The former president is also under investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney in Atlanta and the U.S. Department of Justice about his attempts to overturn the 2020 election he lost by pressuring his own vice president into throwing out the results from key states and awarding Trump a second term ― an effort that culminated in the violence he incited on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Justice Department is also conducting a probe into Trump’s refusal to turn over top secret documents he was keeping at his country club in Palm Beach, in defiance of a subpoena.

Despite his unprecedented actions to end American democracy and despite all the criminal investigations, Trump is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and is leading in most polls.