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Sky News tracked down 鈥� through their social media - five people from around the US who travelled to the Capitol to support Donald Trump.

What are they thinking now about what happened, and about the end of his presidency?

BRIAN MILLER

Mr Miller, 49, travelled to Washington DC on a private plane from Texas with four fellow Trump supporters he had connections to through the Dallas real estate scene.

"Our intention was to see the last hurrah of Trump - if the steal happens," he told Sky News.

Mr Miller is certain that the election has been stolen, citing analysis of supposed irregularities with the vote that he read on the "deep internet".

Among his fellow supporters was Jenna Ryan, 50, who has since been charged with entering the Capitol Building, as well as with disorderly conduct. Mr Miller told Sky News he was on the other side of the building from Ms Ryan.

"You saw people that were up there that were yelling and screaming at the police officers, at the Capitol police," he said.

"And I'm telling you we were not that way when we were at the Trump rally - or any other Trump rally I've ever been to - the people at these don't act like that. These guys acted like rabid dogs.

"What they were doing was wrong. When we saw that they were starting to break the windows right next to the entrance way, we were yelling and screaming," he said.

He told Sky News he won't support the Biden presidency and doesn't expect other Trump voters to support it either.

"Seventy five million people are not going to say, 'Oh yes, Biden's our president.' We're going to be doing the same thing to them [Democrats] that they did to us for four years."

"Everything that's come out [in defence of the Biden votes], with people's testimonies and their affidavits and everything else, none of it is true."

Mr Miller said that although some Trump supporters may have thought there was no choice but to use violence, he doesn't share their views and holds out hope that Joe Biden will be arrested before the inauguration.

Mr Miller was introduced to the Trump universe more than four years ago when his mother asked to be taken to a campaign rally in Dallas.

He told Sky News: "Just from attending, my mother has been a fanatic on conservatism and everything else Donald Trump, and me - I was like - you know what, this is actually kind of cool."

The pair have been to every Dallas rally that Trump has held since.

"My mother's Latin American, so it's one of those things where she's like, 'Latin Women for Trump', and of course myself being a veteran, I went in a nice-looking suit with my Navy veteran ball cap - and my mom went over there all dressed up with her 'Latins for Trump' [clothes]," he laughed.

"Now you've got this last rally, Stop the Steal, on the elections, and of course over here in Texas we're very hardcore conservatives," he said.

"I don't know how to explain the kind of camaraderie that all these people have together, it's phenomenal.

"Not since being in the military have I felt this kind of kinship with people from so many different cultures and age groups and, you know, gay people, Indian people, all walks of life, and it was just amazing. I felt really good about it. I felt warm and fuzzy!"

He added: "Any time they're going to have something like this, I'm going. I have to show my support."

TERRY

Terry left his house in Vienna, Virginia at 6.30 in the morning to take the train to the capital. He drove his truck to the station, a little over 13 miles away from Washington DC.

It was his first Trump rally. "I sure picked a doozy," he told Sky News.

When he boarded at the start of the line there were very few commuters and "maybe 15 Trump supporters" wearing MAGA hats and carrying flags. By the time the train arrived at DC it was full and the city itself was "jam-packed".

The morning was "crazy wild, it was just so much fun" he said.

He initially couldn't find his way to near the main stage but eventually found a screen broadcasting the speeches near the Washington Monument.

"I didn't see any anger, I didn't see anybody yelling or screaming, any obscenities other than the normal 'Stop the Steal' kind of thing," he said.

"The general mood was everybody was there to have a good time and listen to what the president had to say."

A US Air Force veteran, where he served 11 years as a medic, Terry is now a grandfather and manages a team of residential contractors.

He's active on social media under the handle Indian_Terry, posting some political messages alongside videos which include him receiving a haircut and a shave while travelling in Croatia, or deep frying a frozen turkey for his family at Thanksgiving.

He said he went to the rally "to support my president with like-minded people".

"After the election I felt that our voices weren't being heard, or that they were being dismissed. As a blue collar kind of guy, our voices are just not being heard," he added.

"I do feel very strongly there was something that just didn't feel right about this election.

"When you have a large group of people who feel that something's not adding up, and then they're being dismissed as white supremacists and liars, and crazy, and conspiracy theorists, that's a huge amount of people that you're lumping into this."

He laughed about the ridiculousness of a QAnon conspiracy theory someone had shared with him about a satellite taking over television sets to broadcast the arrest of Joe Biden, saying: "I don't subscribe to any of that garbage."

He said "outlandish" conspiracy theories overshadowed what people with his values truly believed. "We're not a bunch of, I call them wack-a-doodle-doos, these people are just so far out there."

The violence came as a shock - although he witnessed it from a distance.

"I was cold, I didn't dress appropriately. When I was half way to the Capitol Building I saw a Metro sign, so I thought I guess I'll watch it on TV. So I jumped on the Metro and went home.

"When I got in my truck I thought 'I had a great day, I'm gonna have a beer', so I stopped at a local pub.

"They turned the TV on for me and next thing you know I'm getting phone calls - 'Terry, are you still down there? They're rioting'. I really was surprised when I saw that."

The atmosphere was so different from what he had experienced that he initially wondered whether the mob was an anti-Trump crowd - such as Antifa - pretending to be Trump supporters.

"I think at the end of the day, Biden is going to be inaugurated," said Terry.

"Part of me hopes that he doesn't do well, but that also means that our country won't do well.

"But the inauguration is going to happen, there's nothing I can do. I'm not going to support this administration but I'm not going to attempt a coup either. I think there's a line we just have to stay behind."

JESSICA WATKINS 

Jessica Watkins, 38, from Woodstook in Ohio, attended as part of a group called the Oath Keepers - all of whom dressed in camouflage gear with helmets and body armour and their militia name written in yellow on their backs.

In video footage, they seem to be moving in formation in a human chain with one hand on each other's shoulders as they snake their way up some steps towards a door on the east side of the Capitol.

The group's uniform and appearance drew the attention of internet sleuths -who found a series of posts from the Capitol on her Parler page.

Ms Watkins, a US Army veteran, identifies herself as commander of the Ohio Regular Militia on the platform.

In one post, she shared a picture with the caption: "Me before forcing entry to the Capitol building" .

Ms Watkins runs a bar in the small town of Woodstock, but declined to speak to us when we turned up outside her home.

She has given just one interview to her local newspaper, the Ohio Capital Journal, and since then those closest to her told us she has been bombarded with calls as the hunt has intensified to try to identify all those involved in the Washington riot.

Sky News spoke to one of her closest friends who told us she considered herself a patriot who had done no wrong.

"Jessica at no point was in an area not open to the public. She stopped individuals within her sphere of influence from smashing or stealing," he said.

"She helped lead disoriented, never-before-teargassed people out of the crowded Rotunda to the grounds."

The friend said Ms Watkins had left her information with Capitol Hill police and believed herself to be innocent.

US media reports indicate that Watkins was arrested on Sunday, along with fellow militia member Donovan Crowl.

JUSTIN STOLL

The 40-year-old travelled to Washington DC from Wilmington, Ohio.

He recorded several videos of the riot and uploaded them to social media platforms including Clapper, Facebook and YouTube.

The videos at the Capitol, published under the username and pseudonym The Real Huckleberry, feature him shouting: "DC is a m** warzone! DC's a warzone! You ain't got enough cops, baby. We are at war at the Capitol. We have taken the Capitol. This is our country!"

Sky News found a Facebook page for The Real Huckleberry (stylised as Th3 Real Huckleberry) tied to Heather Scharding, a woman who describes herself as providing brand management services on LinkedIn, where Sky News was able to contact her to reach Mr Stoll.

She asked us to give him some time to respond "because his hours are funky and he's trying to finish painting a house".

The woman expressed her concern "that he is not made to look bad because social media has been very hard on the people that were attending the DC rally, even the people that were there but didn't create any destruction at all".

None of Mr Stoll's videos show him committing violent acts or creating any destruction.

In one previous video, he states: "Every race on the planet has been slaves, but only the Black race is the one that uses it as a crutch. They are the only race in history to embrace being a victim."

In response to one of his videos from 6 January, a user commented: "Cool! I'm glad I saved this video lol I hope you really went in the Capitol bldg. You'll have 10 years of free room and board waiting for you."

In another video, he replied: "Well, that shows your *** ignorance because, clearly, the capitol building is owned by the people, so again, nothing will happen. Secondly, I never admitted I went into it, did I? Go watch the video again. Daddy's not stupid."

At this point, he winks at the camera.

"Third, if you ever in your ** existence did something to jeopardise taking me away from my family, you will absolutely meet your maker.

"You can play that for the DA (district attorney) in court, I don't care. If you ever jeopardise me, from being with my family, you will absolutely meet your m** maker, and I will be the one to arrange the meeting."

The 40-year-old has now been arrested by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and is accused of witness tampering by issuing the above threatening message.

He has been released on bail and is prohibited from using social media.

Following his arrest, Heather Scharding told Sky News: "I'm sorry, Huck will not be doing any interviews given the current situation."

TARA SZCZEPANSKI

Tara Szczepanski is a pro-Trump social media journalist who travelled from Portland, Oregon, for the rally.

"I've been travelling around the country to attend multiple Stop the Steal rallies, from Georgia to Arizona, to multiple times in DC," she said.

"That day was very different from what I had experienced before."

Ms Szczepanski had previously been assaulted while covering an anti-racist rally in New York. She said she had filed a report with police, who were seeking to press assault charges.

"The Capitol was filled with patriots, which is a beautiful sight, as they were marching towards the Capitol, however I'm not in agreement with going inside of the federal building," she said.

Ms Szczepanski alleged that Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists had "infiltrated" the crowd.

The FBI assistant director in charge of the Washington field office, Steven D'Antuono, said it had "no indication" this was true when the claims were first proposed by a number of Republican members of Congress.

Ms Szczepanski said: "The president had not condoned violence, he had denounced the violence of that day, he had asked for people to be peaceful, so those people who are true supporters of the president would have acted in peaceful means."

"The events of that day were unfortunate and sadly we had lost also a patriot, Ashli Babbitt, and also police officers," she added.

She said that Mr Biden was going to be inaugurated "and so with that we'll be living in a Biden America" - something which she intends to continue to document.