Machete is the maniac who was caught before Trump’s Capitol visit and talked about him on the Internet

The 44-year-old man accused of trying to smuggle a machete and other knives into the US Capitol on the same day as President-elect Donald Trump will pay his respects as the late former President Jimmy Carter lies in state appears to have made a series. of anti-Trump social media posts.

Mel J. Horne faces multiple counts of possession of a dangerous weapon after he tried to enter the Capitol Visitor Center with a machete, two folding knives and a box cutter, according to court documents. However, he was released a few days before the Inauguration Day.

An account at X under his name and linked to a handle associated with his phone number found in court documents shows he has made several anti-Trump posts in recent days.

The account referred to both the president-elect and billionaire Elon Musk as “bags” while responding to a Trump parody account that asked, “Do you like Elon Musk?”

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In another post on New Year’s Day, he asserted that the two men “worked as staunch enemies of the state.” On December 9, the account posted “F— them!”

Earlier in the day, the account also called Trump an “enemy” but shared a message of prayer.

“Praying for all of us,” the caption read. “He no matter how much he is an enemy of the American people, he is our President-elect so I will pray for his health and safety and that Jesus is able to touch his heart and show him the way.”

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Another post, in response to a tweet about the Capitol police officer who shot January 6 protester Ashley Babbitt, called for Trump to be prosecuted.

“Trump should be tried because he brought them together and sent them there…” he wrote, adding emojis. “You sent that girl to die.”

Horne’s mother had previously accused him of drug addiction and mental illness and asked the court to remove him from his home and order him to undergo psychiatric treatment.

US Capitol Police stopped a man from entering the Capitol at a security checkpoint after allegedly finding a machete and three knives in his bag. (US Capitol Police)

Other posts included insults directed at Tulsi Gabbard, former congresswoman and Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, Vice President-elect JD Vance, and newly acquitted Daniel Penny, who was indicted to block the subway after a man threatened to kill other passengers.

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Capitol Police declined to comment on the tweets.

“To protect our cases, we cannot discuss an open investigation,” said a Fox News Digital spokesperson.

Mel Horne (Mel Horne/Instagram)

Horne allegedly told Capitol Police that the metal weapons were earthmoving tools after placing them on an X-ray tray in the magnetometer at the Capitol Visitor Center, according to the affidavit.

Police noted that there was more than 6 inches of snow on the ground and that the city had declared a snow emergency days before, and asked him when his last maintenance job was.

Read the police affidavit:

“[Horne] told… that he was not coming from or on his way to work on the landscaping,” the affidavit continued.[Horne] he said he is homeless, and he carries these things everywhere he goes.”

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Trump, who attended Carter’s memorial the day Horne allegedly tried to sneak weapons, will be inaugurated for a second term on Jan. 20.

A D.C. Superior Court judge granted Horne conditional release pending trial, court records show. Details of his release terms have not been made public.

Another man, Adrian Hinton, was also arrested that day after allegedly trying to set fire to a car near the Grant Memorial. He will appear in court later this week.

Horne’s arrest report lists him as a prior conviction, although the nature of his prior conviction was not immediately clear. He was previously arrested in 2019, but the Department of Corrections told Fox News Digital it was not authorized to release records from that case. Court records show he faced multiple misdemeanor charges in 2004.

A plow removes snow in front of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2025. Horne reportedly told police that the machete he allegedly found was one of his landscaping tools. They notice that the city has a snow storm. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)

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“My son lives in our (free) house and in the last year he has started using drugs to get high or change his mind,” his mother, Brenda Horne, said in the civil complaint. “Now he is becoming violent, and we are afraid and want him removed from the home.”

He asked the judge to issue an order to remove him from his residence and force him to undergo psychiatric treatment.

The case was eventually dismissed without prejudice and Horne agreed to live away from his parents’ home for a year, with the caveat that he was allowed to go back outside the property to tend to his bonsai trees, according to court documents.

Julia Bonavita of Fox News contributed to this report.