Former President Donald Trump added a new attorney ahead of a possible federal indictment over his role in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots and efforts to overturn the 2020 election after receiving a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith.

Trump last week added attorney John Lauro, who previously represented Trump attorneys Christina Bobb and Alina Habba.

CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, who served as Democratic counsel during Trump's first impeachment, told CNN that Lauro is a "very skilled" and "very brilliant defense lawyer" but predicted that he was taking on a losing case.

"It's not going to work because I believe the evidence is so overwhelming here. When this case gets to a jury, Donald Trump is going to be in a lot of trouble. But he does have a good defense lawyer on his side now in John," Eisen said on Sunday.

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Though Lauro has claimed that Trump did nothing illegal, Eisen listed off several potential offenses he may be charged with, particularly in connection with the fake elector scheme.

"Those phony false, fraudulent counterfeit certificates!" he said. "These were pieces of paper that said the undersigned were the electors for the winner, Donald Trump. And they signed these false electors signed that. That's a counterfeit. 18 USC 1871. That was led from the Oval Office, conspiracy to defraud."

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