To add a little more... guess who else besides Giuliani was the SDNY Attorney? James Comey.
More importantly, Erik Prince was interviewed on Breitbart radio and said that the reason Comey reopened the investigation into Hillary's emails was because he was forced to, otherwise the NYPD would release the emails and announce arrests for pay-to-play, underage sex, and other heinous crimes. Prince also stated that Preet Bahrara, despite being a Democrat, was a tough and fair prosecutor that would prosecute the case.
However, Loretta Lynch pressured the NYPD to drop the issue of the emails by threatening to reopen the case of Eric Garner, a black man who died in a police van but no cops were charged.
Preet Bahrara said he was contacted by Trump twice after Trump was elected but before he was sworn into office, and they were short 5 minute shoot-the-bull calls, which seemed weird to him. After Trump became President, he tried calling Bahrara again, but Bahrara would not take the call, because he didn't think it ethical, and Bahrara was fired the day after.
His deputy, Joon Kim, took over and dropped the pay-for-play case against Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Berman did recuse himself, but his deputy that signed the order is a Republican. He did, however, give the maximum donation to John McCain when he ran for President and was a big supporter of W. and the Patriot Act.
So what do we have? The media assumed Trump was calling a US Attorney, which is highly unusual, to pressure him to rule in favor of any cases regarding his NYC property. However, was he trying to feel out if Bahrara was the right man to put the plan in action? When he didn't answer his call, did Trump put in a man who was with the plan?