'My president': Resurfaced video shows Lauren Boebert promise she'd never disrespect Obama

A decade-old clip of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) praising Barack Obama has been making the rounds on social media as the conservative firebrand seeks a third term in office in a new congressional district.

The Colorado Republican first attracted national notice as the owner of the gun-themed Shooters Grill in her hometown of Rifle, and she appeared on CNN in July 2014 in a remote interview with former anchor Brooke Baldwin, who asked if a sign hanging in the eatery — "proudly clinging to my guns and Bible" — was in response to an infamous remark Obama made about rural Americans, reported Newsweek.

"No, I would never do anything to disrespect my president," Boebert responded. "I believe it is an office that is in place by God and I would never say anything to disrespect him. I didn't know that that comment was even made. I actually just picked up the sign at a local store."

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"No, I stand corrected," Boebert added, glancing toward the sign. "A friend of mine bought that for me, and I thought it was fitting."

Boebert stated that all employees at her restaurant kept the safeties locked on their firearms while they worked, so patrons need not worry about accidental shootings.

"I mean, guns nowadays or firearms are manufactured great," Boebert said. "The holsters, they cover your trigger. You know, there are no accidents that are going to happen, I mean, there's no such thing these days. We do keep them [in] holsters and [there is] no reason a waitress is ever allowed to unholster. If something did happen, we are not anticipating an attack. We do not expect it."

In the event of an emergency, she said, armed patrons could step up in the staff's defense.

"We have patrons that would carry and would stand up for my girls that we wouldn't even need to do anything," she said.

Employees, however, say that fame changed Boebert and her politics for the worst, telling Mother Jones two years ago, shortly before Shooters closed, that the restaurant's popularity went to her head.

“The second the restaurant blew up, her head blew up, and it became something entirely different,” a former waitress said,
"and I got to meet a new version of her that is a monster.”

Workers say that Boebert began to intertwine her personal politics with the restaurant after Donald Trump became president, and one employee claims she aimed a loaded gun at him when he said he would have voted for Obama to remain president for a third term if he could have.

“She would tell it like a joke," that worker said. "She thought it was hilarious."