A riot broke out after swaths of pro-Trump supporters stormed our nation’s Capitol in protest on Wednesday.

However, the experience was anything but chaotic for one Palmerton woman who attended the rally.

Raberta Hans chartered a bus through J&J Luxury Transportation with a group of friends to attend the rally in Washington, D.C.

Hans said they boarded the bus at Fourth and Franklin, which left at 4:30 a.m. and arrived about 9 a.m. in our nation’s capital.

She said the atmosphere when they arrived was “very energized; people were polite, calm, courteous.”

Hans said, “I did not experience any counterprotests.”

From there, Hans said her group walked from Union Station to the monument.

“We watched all of the speakers on the jumbotrons; it was amazing, there were people everywhere with flags, tens of thousands of people,” she said. “No one was pushing or shoving, it was just people, they chanted, shouted USA; it was an awesome experience.”

Hans added, “We didn’t really see anything. We saw police on the steps, saw people climbing to the top of the scaffolding waving flags.

“Police were tossing tear gas and dislodging flashbang cartridges,” she said. “We were out of that range, we didn’t get hit with any of it.”

Hans said she was surprised with what they initially encountered.

“When we first got to the Capitol, we were like, ‘why were they shooting tear gas? There was no one acting unruly.”

Hans described the scene as they were leaving.

“As we were leaving the area, people were telling us that people got in, that people got shot, that people were scaling walls,” she said. “We were gone before dark. Our bus left promptly at 4, so we don’t know what happened after that.”

Hans discussed what her group observed.

“Where we were, there was a lot of people very passionately supporting the democracy of our country,” she said. “It was clearly a Trump rally, but people wanted the election to be fair and investigated; there are some who feel Pennsylvania was stolen.

“It’s more about the integrity of our election,” she said. “The governor and our attorney general, their rules they put into place like three days before the election, that’s not their job; that’s the job of the legislature, they overstepped.

“Because now the door’s open for corruption. It’s going to be no-holds barred in 2022.”

Hans summed up her experience.

“There are no words; it was just an awesome experience,” she said. “I felt I stepped into a page of history; I hope they write it correctly.”