Financial commentator Dave Ramsey revealed he will vote for Donald Trump at the election, and doesn’t care if he loses fans over it.
The radio pundit, who has a net worth of $150 million to $200 million, runs the scandal-plagued Ramsey Solutions financial consulting firm.
He explained on his program that he went through both Trump and Kamala Harris‘ policies on tax, immigration, guns, foreign affairs and climate change.
‘I’m looking at ideas, and which ideas land on which side of the aisle… I can check those boxes very clearly, very quickly on those two candidates,’ he said.
Ramsey even compared which of the two he could find ‘a woke policy I like, that I agree with’, without explaining what that meant.
Financial commentator Dave Ramsey revealed he will vote for Donald Trump at the election , and doesn’t care if he loses fans over it
‘So I’m gonna tell you I’m voting for Donald Trump – not because I’m voting for Donald Trump, because I check those boxes, and more of those are on that side than on the other side,’ he said.
Ramsey said he wasn’t concerned about reaction from fans of The Ramsey Show, because he had enough listeners and complete control of the program.
‘Some of you are never gonna listen to me again after this. That’s okay. I can deal with that. That has happened to me for 30 years,’ he said.
‘People have threatened me like, «I’m going to cancel you». That’s hard to do. I own the show and so you’re not gonna get to cancel me.
‘So you can leave, but you can’t cancel me.’
Few listeners are likely to be surprised and switch off, as Ramsey is a longstanding conservative who frequently praises Trump and his policies.
Ramsey earlier this month held a friendly interview with the former president about his economic plans, including inflation and oil drilling.
He followed up the interview with a glowing review of Trump’s policies and economic knowledge on Fox Business.
Ramsey earlier this month held a friendly interview with the former president about his economic plans, including inflation and oil drilling
However, in the past he declared ‘neither one of [Trump and Harris] are fiscally responsible human beings’.
Ramsey describes himself as conservative ‘both fiscally and culturally’ and believes presidents should do ‘as little as possible’ with the economy.
His firm was sued several times for allegedly firing and harassing staff who strayed from Christian conservative moral codes.
Former employee Caitlin O’Connor filed a federal lawsuit in July 2020, claiming she was fired for getting pregnant via a man she wasn’t married to, which violated Ramsey Solutions’ employee conduct policies.
The company admitted that was why she was fired, and said it terminated at least eight other employees for engaging in premarital sex since 2015.
Five of those terminated were men, and thus the company claimed O’Connor was in no way discriminated against because she was a woman.
Sex outside of marriage is a violation of the company’s ‘core values’ laid out in the employee handbook.
Ramsey said he wasn’t concerned about reaction from fans of The Ramsey Show, because he had enough listeners and completely control of the program
‘Should a team member engage in behavior not consistent with traditional Judeo-Christian values or teaching, it would damage the image and the value of our good will and our brand,’ it warned.
‘If this should occur, the team member would be subject to review, probation, or termination.’
Julie Anne Stamps claimed in September 2021 that when she told her supervisor she was lesbian, she was told company policy meant she could no longer work there, and she was eventually forced out.
Ramsey Solutions denied the allegations.
The firm was also accused of repeated violations of Covid laws, including a federal lawsuit by a worker who claimed his religious rights were violated.
A catering company made a health complaint claiming its staff working at Ramsey’s Christmas party in 2020 were told not to wear gloves or masks.
Earlier in the pandemic it was accused of ignoring rules against hosting large gatherings, including hosting a conference after the Marriott canceled it, and keeping its Nashville headquarters open after staff tested positive.
Ramsey describes himself as conservative ‘both fiscally and culturally’ and believes presidents should do ‘as little as possible’ with the economy
Former employee Brad Amos sued the firm in December 2021, claiming he was fired for following Covid precautions.
His lawsuit claimed his religious rights were violated as he was following the ‘Golden Rule’ as set out by Jesus to ‘do unto as others as you what you would have them do to you’ by protecting people from Covid.
Amos, like other ex-staff, likened Ramsey Solutions to a cult and claimed employees were accused of ‘weakness of spirit’ for being worried about the pandemic, and told they just needed to pray to ward it off.
The firm denied the claims, and the lawsuit was thrown out by a district judge – but an appeals court overturned that ruling in August, allowing the case to continue.
Ramsey himself reportedly conducted a witch-hunt against former staff who discussed his firm’s working conditions online.
He allegedly infiltrated a private Facebook group, and offered cash bounties on the identities of those behind anonymous Twitter accounts the ex-staff set up once they realized he was in the Facebook group.
Ramsey also allegedly ‘pulled a gun out of a bag to try to teach a lesson about gossip’.
