It comes after Trump reportedly suggested the idea on Friday of throwing a "big beautiful party" if he is re-elected president that would include Saudi King Salman and his son and de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed.
The proposed celebration would be to mark a touted normalisation agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which has been suggested by officials could take place soon.
Crown Prince Mohammed, also known as MbS, has been unofficially blacklisted by Western capitals after several intelligence agencies linked him to the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
"There are very demonstrable things that they could do," Brennan said when questioned by Yahoo News on "Skullduggery" podcast on what Washington could do in response to the killing.
"But Trump has not done any of that. They can make sure that they're not going to deal with MbS. And really make him a pariah, in many respects, in the bilateral relationship."
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"If he's going to allow Mohammed bin Salman to come to this country, and be feted and hosted by a president of the United States, after what his own intelligence community, the CIA, has reportedly said about MbS' responsibility for the murder and dismemberment of a US resident, I just find that very telling [about] Donald Trump, obviously," he added.
It is widely acknowledged that Khashoggi was kidnapped, murdered and his body dismembered by Saudi officials at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul, after attempting to complete paperwork for his fiance in October 2018.
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