Roger Stone was indicted on seven counts accusing him of witness tampering and allegedly misleading Congress about his efforts to communicate with WikiLeaks and his contacts with the Trump campaign. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Mueller Investigation White House doesn't fully rule out pardon for Roger Stone

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called chatter of President Donald Trump potentially pardoning his longtime associate Roger Stone "ridiculous," but she did not rule out such a move.

"I'm not going to talk about hypotheticals that are just ridiculous," Sanders said of a possible pardon for Stone. "I'm not aware of a conversation regarding that or a need for it."


She added that she hasn't had conversations about it with the president.

Stone on Friday was indicted on seven counts accusing him of witness tampering and allegedly misleading Congress about his efforts to communicate with WikiLeaks and his contacts with the Trump campaign.

Stone has previously said that he has never discussed a pardon with Trump.

"The only person that I have advocated a pardon for, as we have discussed previously, is a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey," he said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Stone also said during the interview that he has yet to determine the extent of his cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, but that he would be willing to testify about his communications with Trump.