NEW YORK—As former President Donald Trump prepared to turn himself in to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on April 4, protesters both for and against his indictment gathered across the street from the courthouse where he was set to be arraigned.
As chants of “No Trump, no KKK, no racist USA!” echoed on one side of Collect Pond Park, on the other side, Trump supporters gathered in solidarity with the former president.
Among the latter group was David Rem, 59, who attended the same private school as Trump—Kew-Forest in Forest Hills, Queens—and has known the Trump family since 1974, when his father died of a heart attack….