Trump's cabinet is a 'grab bag' of 'freaks' — and that could save democracy: legal expert

Former federal prosecutor Ken White on Thursday took stock of President-elect Donald Trump's picks to serve in his cabinet and came away with a surprisingly optimistic assessment.

White believes that Trump's picks are very bad and will do very bad things with the power they have.

However, he also believes them to be undisciplined self-promoters who will overall be ineffective at consolidating power inside the executive branch.

The prime example of this, argues White, is Trump's decision to pick scandal-plagued former Rep.