by Frank Holmes, reporter
A full 23 years after leaving the Oval Office, and eight years since receiving a world class drubbing in the 2016 presidential election, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s name is adjacent to another mysterious shooting.
Not only are the Clintons’ names attached to another dead body, but the group that carried out the shooting is also a throwback: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
The victim’s name is Bryan Malinowski, a gun collector accused of buying guns for his personal use, but later deciding to sell them.
Without knowing it, Malinowski sold at least three guns to undercover federal agents at a gun show in Conway, Arkansas.
Agents say they found some of the guns Malinowski sold at crime scenes and suspected he was fronting the guns to criminals—but they evidently never informed him he was a suspect.
They just raided his home and shot him.
Sometime in the early morning hours of March 19, ATF agents busted into Malinowski’s home at 4 Durance Court in Little Rock. The loud banging at the door reportedly woke Malinowski and his wife.
Assuming the unannounced visitors meant him harm, Malinowski grabbed a gun and confronted the intruders.
“Bryan shot approximately three times at a decidedly low angle, probably at the feet of the intruders who were roughly 30 feet away,” said the official court affidavit filed by his lawyer.
The ATF immediately shot Malinowski in the head with “a high-caliber” round of ammunition.
The 53-year-old was taken to the hospital, where he medical officials pronounced him dead on March 21.
Video footage taken from Malinowski’s doorbell camera and a neighbor’s camera show ATF agents dressed in paramilitary gear swarming the property, pulling up in 10 separate vehicles. The agents then put their hands over Malinowski’s door cam, preventing him from seeing anything moments before the shooting, which took place somewhere around 6 a.m. local time.
All of this seems suspicious for several reasons.
First of all, the ATF agents’ actions seem to break an official September 2021 memo from Biden’s Justice Department stating, “Federal agents are generally required to ‘knock and announce’ their identity, authority and purpose, and demand to enter before entry is made to execute a warrant in a private dwelling.”
Agents can only execute a “no-knock” warrant if they believe announcing their presence would trigger violence, or if announcing their presence would cause an imminent emergency, such as a threat to national security.
The ATF still hasn’t explained how a middle-aged middle manager from Middle America posed a threat to them, or to national security.
“Even if the allegations in the affidavit are true, they don’t begin to justify what happened,” saidtThe lawyer representing Malinowski, Bud Cummins. Cummins once served as chief legal counsel to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee—the third Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction.
“The Malinowski home is almost 3,000 square feet. It was 6 a.m. Mr. Malinowski apparently had no idea he was under law enforcement scrutiny,” Cummins continued. “The justification for the search involved suspicion of a crime carrying a puny 0–6-month U.S. Sentencing guideline range which typically results in a sentence of probation or more often probation ending with complete dismissal (pre-trial diversion).”
When police carried out far less provocative measures to arrest a suspected criminal, and killed Breonna Taylor after she got caught in the crossfire, riots erupted nationwide.
But when a low-level gun show enthusiast connected to the Clinton airport takes a round to the head, no one raises a peep.
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport Executive Shot in the Head by Federal Agents at His Home in Arkansas
• Officer-involved shooting at a home on Durance Court in Little Rock Tuesday
• Bryan Malinowski, 53, shot in head, hospitalized in serious condition
• Malinowski… pic.twitter.com/QHwp2DslK2
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 21, 2024
To make matters fishier, the agents have also yet to release video footage recorded by their Body Worn Cameras (BWC). That also seems to skirt federal regulations.
“There is a presumption ATF will publicly release all TFO BWC recording(s) that depict an incident resulting in the serious bodily injury or death of another, as soon as practical unless there exist specific and compelling grounds to justify withholding,” according to official ATF policy, which is binding on all agents.
The feds are sitting on the footage, because the “ATF’s tactics on March 19 were reckless and incompetent, and completely unnecessary,” Cummins claimed.
Third, Malinowski has an indirect tie to the Clintons.
Malinowski was the executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock. He was so well thought of that the airport awarded him a posthumous $24,000 bonus.
The Clinton name as been adjacent to a string of dead bodies, from Ron Brown to Jeffrey Epstein.
And of course, the ATF was at the center of numerous controversial shootings and deadly executive actions during the Clinton era, including the incendiary raid on the Branch Davidians’ compound in Waco, Texas. That happened just over a year after the ATF’s murderous raid against Randy Weaver’s family in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
What’s going on?
Was Malinowski targeted by the ATF as part of Joe Biden’s crackdown on gun shows?
Did the ATF get bad information that he was violent and posed a threat to national security?
What role did his employment at the airport play in all this?
The Arkansas State Police (ASP) plans to get to the bottom of things. The ASP announced, “The case file on the March 19 officer-involved shooting of Bryan Malinowski will be forwarded by ASP’s Criminal Investigation Division to the 6th Judicial District prosecuting attorney’s office on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.”
The case file on the March 19 officer-involved shooting of Bryan Malinowski will be forwarded by ASP’s Criminal Investigation Division to the 6th Judicial District prosecuting attorney’s office on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
https://t.co/PQSpVbUgvZ pic.twitter.com/4GdveLFmNn— Arkansas State Police (@ARStatePolice) April 22, 2024
But the ASP can’t recommend charges; it can only look at the officers’ involvement in the shooting and decide whether it was justified.
The Clintons’ body count continues to grow, decades after this destructive couple left the White House.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”