“She’s doing it for the right reasons, but I don’t know if she knows what she’s doing,” Singharaj said of Miyaguchi.

Until the end, Miyaguchi insisted the hotel was on its way to becoming a temple, that the rooms were clean, the walls free of mold. She said she invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into the hotel, but was not able to provide receipts. She would show visitors the fresh white paint on the walls, and would tell them she could still win over the judge, if only she could get a lawyer.

On Monday morning, the demolition crew arrived. Miyaguchi confronted them, to no avail.

Jenness was also there Monday. He passed the golden Buddha, which had been taken out of the hotel and placed in the back of a semi-trailer, next to a pile of plastic flowers, an American flag, and a shop vacuum. The demolition crew lugged bed frames out of the rooms and piled them in the parking lot next to uprooted toilet bowls.

Jenness inspected the motel rooms. He peeled back the wallpaper, revealing a leopard-print pattern of black mold. He gestured at the ceiling, where rings of mold had broken through a coat of fresh white paint.

In court, he and the city had argued that Miyaguchi kept painting over her problems, that he had seen her and volunteers putting primer over black mold. “If you cover it up, it’s just going to come back,” Jenness said . He pulled up a corner of carpeting and pointed at the rot in the wooden floorboards.

Trump’s own legal team has decried the prospect of a public version eventually being filed as “tantamount to a premature and improper special counsel report” that “will undoubtedly enter the dialogue around the election.”

Chutkan has given no indication of her intentions, and she could well decide to keep most of the evidence being submitted by Smith under wraps. At a hearing before her earlier this month, Thomas P. Windom, a prosecutor working for Smith, noted, “It is the court that will decide what is unsealed from the sensitive discovery. It is not the defense or the government that will do that.”

Much is already known about Trump’s multiple overlapping efforts to stay in power. A House select committee spent months investigating the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob and publicized its findings in televised hearings and a lengthy written report.

Smith added further details to the record in his indictment, and media accounts have also surfaced many facts.

Still, Smith is believed to have gathered additional facts that were not recounted in the House report or in the indictment.

For example, several key witnesses in the case — including Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president, and his White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows — either refused to speak with the House committee or did not fully cooperate. But after an extended legal battle, they did testify before Smith’s grand jury or speak with his investigators.

Brooklyn Park’s public works director is facing charges of felony rape, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment and battery in connection with an alleged incident two weeks ago at a downtown Atlanta hotel and resort.

Daniel J. Ruiz, of St. Paul, was booked into the Fulton County jail and spent eight days in custody after he was arrested Sept. 8 at Club Wyndham Atlanta. He posted an $80,000 bond and was released last week, court records show.

Ruiz is accused of holding a woman against her will and raping her in a room inside the resort overlooking Centennial Olympic Park, according to a criminal warrant filed in Fulton County Court.

Ruiz allegedly held the victim against her will and pulled her back into a hotel room when she tried to leave, and continued the assault. Ruiz “intentionally caused physical harm” to the victim, who was injured as he held her down, the warrant said.

Ruiz has worked for Brooklyn Park since 2002, when he started as manager for the city’s Support Services and Recycling Division. He was named public works director in 2014, according to the city’s website.

City spokeswoman Risikat Adesaogun said officials are aware of the situation and reviewing personnel policies to determine if any city policies apply to the incident.

Ruiz was on family medical leave at the time of the alleged incident. He is due in Fulton County Court on Tuesday.