NEW YORK — Donald Trump sat quietly facing forward on Monday as prosecutors recited the 34-count hush money indictment to a jury in the first criminal trial against a former president.

A 12-person jury in Manhattan listened to the opening statements by prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, who used his time to lay out a comprehensive narrative about the facts of the case. He focused much of his opening statement on describing the role of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and fixer, saying his job was “to take care of problems for the defendant.”