Trump news – live: Georgia prosecutor to lay out election case in first court hearing on Monday

Hearing concerns trial of ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

The Republican presidential hopeful was asked on Face the Nation on Sunday by host Nancy Cordes why he was now attacking the former president “after he was accused of rape, after he praised Vladimir Putin repeatedly, after he was impeached.”

The former New Jersey governor said that it was because of Mr Trump being the “greatest threat” to democracy.

“The conduct I’m talking about, Nancy, is the one that is the greatest threat to our country and the greatest threat to our democracy,” he said.

“And that was standing in front of the cameras from the White House behind the seal of the president on election night and telling people the election was stolen and for now three years, nearly, continuing to say the same thing, with absolutely no proof and no evidence. That’s the problem, Nancy.

“You can have policy disagreements with someone. And, believe me, I spoke out at the time about the things that I disagreed with Donald Trump on. That’s much different than taking classified documents from the White House and hiding them for 18 months from the government, claiming you don’t have them, when these are some of the biggest secrets in our — in our country’s arsenal.

“It’s different than undercutting democracy, in the way that he was doing so and leading to the right we had on Capitol Hill on January 6. You know, I’m going to get on that stage and I’m going to tell the truth. Regardless of what other people may think, that is the truth.”

Here’s what we know about the case and what’s next for Mr Trump in Georgia.

The Florida governor was on the campaign trail in Iowa this week.

Rock band Green Day are selling Donald Trump mugshot t-shirts to raise cash for Maui fire charities.

The design of the limited-edition shirt mimics the band’s 1997 Nimrod album but with Mr Trump’s face on it. According to an Instagram post, the band will donate the proceeds to Greater Good Music, a charity providing food to those impacted by the devastating wildfires in Hawaii.

“If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern. President Trump is not your average person. He’s incredibly intelligent,” his attorney and legal spokesperson Alina Habba told Fox News Sunday.

“He also knows the facts because he lived them,” she continued. “What is he going to have to be prepped for, the truth? You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”

Mr Trump faces 91 felony charges across the four legal cases in which he has been indicted. These include the January 6 case, the Mar-a-Lago documents, case, the Georgia election interference case and the Manhattan hush-money case.