Chris Christie, the former Republican New Jersey governor who served on President Trump Donald John TrumpBillionaire investor says he'd back primary challenger to Trump: report Trump donates 0,000 from salary to alcoholism research How the government will reopen MORE's transition team, said Sunday that the indictment of Roger Stone Roger Jason StoneMueller’s selective prosecution of Stone, Venezuelan-style Trump seeks to shift narrative after Stone indictment Mueller hunt for Russia collusion turns into circus show with Stone MORE, a longtime Trump confidant, is "pretty damning."

Christie also predicted that Stone, who was indicted Friday on seven counts in special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE's Russia probe, would be in "very, very grave danger" if he decides to fight the charges in a trial.

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“The fact is that he’s got a problem. They’ve got all these emails and text messages that he created that tell a pretty clear story, and I think it’s going to be very difficult for a jury to listen to that and conclude that it wasn’t what he was trying to do," Christie said during an interview on ABC's "This Week."

“If he decides to go to trial, he’s in very, very grave danger," Christie added. "Everyone is presumed innocent, and so is he, but the indictment I think is a pretty damning indictment.”

On Roger Stone calling the special counsel's indictment "thin," Chris Christie says "it's not."



"The fact is that he's got a problem, because they've got all these e-mails and text messages that he created, that tell a pretty clear story." https://t.co/8is05mw7w6 pic.twitter.com/eTHnSgmg9G — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 27, 2019

Stone was indicted on one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements and one count of witness tampering.

Stone earlier on Sunday called the indictment "thin as piss on a rock" and said that text messages cited in it were taken out of context.

Christie, however, said he disagreed with that characterization.

"The fact of the matter is that every white-collar defendant in this circumstance, when they’re confronted with a bunch of documents of their own making, tries to say that they’re out of context," he said. "If I had a nickel for every time I had a defendant tell me when I was U.S. attorney that something was out of context, I’d be a rich guy and I’m not."

Christie also said he doesn't think it would be "politically viable" for Trump to pardon Stone.

“Legally, I think he’s absolutely well within his right to do it," he said. "The president understands the limits of politics and he’s understanding it even more. And I think he knows that those kinds of pardons would not be politically viable."