A lawyer for Donald Trump spoke outside court after a jury found that Trump sexually abused the advice columnist E Jean Carroll in a New York department store changing room 27 years ago, saying they would appeal. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub

'This was a rape claim. It was a rape case all along. And the jury rejected that, but made all the findings,' Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopnia, said. The verdict for the first time legally brands a former US president as a sexual predator.

But as it is the result of a civil not criminal case, the only legal sanction Trump will face is financial. The verdict for Trump, who denied the claims made by Carroll, comes as he is facing a number of other legal risks.

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