Chris Christie, the former Republican New Jersey governor who served on President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE's transition team, said Sunday that the indictment of Roger Stone Roger Jason StoneOur Constitution is under attack by Attorney General William Barr Justice IG investigating Stone sentencing: report Romney says Trump's protest tweets 'clearly intended to further inflame racial tensions' 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 (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout 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."