ITV journalist's report from inside US Capitol: 'A crowd of furious men in camouflage wielding heavy wooden sticks encircled us'
We were primed for unrest but were not expecting it on a scale like this.
For months now we have reported on rising tensions in America. Following President Trump denouncing Joe Biden’s landslide victory as a “fraud”, we knew it was only a matter of time before his supporters grew violent.
Yet no-one could have expected the scenes we witnessed: a braying mob decked in Trump garb scaling walls, trampling fences, climbing the inauguration stage and, with screams of fury, hijacking the nation’s Capitol.