Hell of a thing, all right? Hell of a thing. An ex-Major League Baseball player, he gets accused of something. Looks like it's a setup. It's an assault accusation, it's convoluted. We have actual interview testimony provided. [00:00:18] Let me put up the picture full mass here. Okay, so former Dodgers pitcher, Trevor Bauer, is speaking out after lawsuit involving himself and his accuser, Lindsay Hill. This lawsuit has now been settled, he could talk about it. [00:00:34] Bauer was actually placed on administrative leave by the MLB. This happened in 2021 after the allegations were made by Lindsay Hill. Who said Bauer assaulted her on two different occasions, [00:00:51] at his home during what she said began as consensual sex or sexual encounters between them both. So here's what Bauer said about the situation. >> Speaker 2: Next victim, star pitcher for the Dodgers. [00:01:08] A text Lindsay Hill sent to a friend before she ever even met me. What should I steal? She asked another in reference to visiting my house for the first time. The answer, take his money. So how might that work? I'm going to his house Wednesday, she said. I already have my hooks in, you know how I roll. [00:01:24] Then, after the first time we met, net worth is 51 mil, she said. Bitch, you better secure the bag, was the response. But how was she gonna do that? Need daddy to choke me out, she said. Being an absolute whore to try to get in on his 51 million, read another text. [00:01:40] Then, after the second time we met, former Padres pitcher, Jacob Nix, told her, you gotta get this bag. I'll give you 50,000, Lindsay replied. Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, do you feel a tiny bit guilty? Not really, she replied. Since then, her legal team has approached me multiple times about coming to [00:01:57] a financial settlement. But as I have done since day one, I refused to pay her even a single cent. In August of 2021, Lindsay Hill's claims were heard in court, and during those legal proceedings, critical information was deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team. [00:02:13] Information like this video, which was taken by Lindsay Hill herself the morning after she claimed she was brutally attacked, emotionally traumatized, and desperate to get away from me. And now we have the metadata, so there can be no dispute. It was taken mere minutes before she left my house on the morning of May 16th, [00:02:31] 2021, without my knowledge or consent, of course. In it, you can see her lying in bed next to me while I'm sleeping, smirking at the camera without a care in the world or any marks on her face. I think it paints a pretty clear picture of what actually happened the evening [00:02:46] of May 15th and why the video was originally concealed from us. Yeah, after hearing the evidence available to her, Judge Diana Gold Saltman found that Lindsay Hill had misled the court. She found her claims to be materially misleading. She denied her request for a domestic violence restraining order, and [00:03:04] she found that no sexual assault or non-consensual conduct took place. >> Speaker 1: Actually, I have more information, let's put up the picture full mass. Now, the individual, Who conducts the interview, I really don't rock with her. [00:03:24] But because of who she's interviewing and the information provided, or lack thereof, it is important for context. So Sara Gonzalez interviewed Lindsay Hill following Bauer's release of the video, [00:03:40] so we're talking about a direct response. So here's Hill's response when questioned about the video you just saw. >> You say this wasn't a setup, how can you expect anyone to believe that? [00:03:57] >> Speaker 4: That's a great question, I really appreciate you having me on to even have this conversation. Obviously, there's a lot going on around this, so I really appreciate people who are asking questions about it. The first thing I wanna say is I think that Trevor did this intentionally with [00:04:14] the text messages and how he framed this video, there's several things in it that are not correct. And I just wanna start out by saying it's so valid for people to question those text messages. But the root of the problem here is that he is presenting this as one conversation, [00:04:31] when in reality, he had thousands of messages to choose from, took those, made it look sequential, which it was not. There is no combined screenshot of those things going on one after the other. And as I said last night as well, there's no text message that ever exists, [00:04:49] otherwise he would have put it out there, combining anything about a setup through rough sex, finances all in one. Those were handpicked, and they were from multiple different conversations, all before we met up. [00:05:04] And I think that the video in general doesn't even talk about what actually happened between us two, which is what would have come out during a jury trial. These were all messages that happened before. And then of course, the video is so valid as well for people to ask questions about, [00:05:21] but I do think that that video was entirely misleading. He also references the restraining order hearing, which people also have questions about. He says that he was cleared of any wrongdoing, which is actually incorrect. In our civil case, the judge had actually ruled that he had not been cleared of [00:05:38] any wrongdoing, and that was a federal court judge. >> Speaker 3: Okay, so I wanna get to the domestic violence restraining order hearing as well. So you're saying that it's misleading because you're admitting that you did talk about rough sex and wanting rough sex, you did talk about [00:05:57] him needing to choke you out, you did talk about stealing his money. But it's misleading because he put them together in the same video as if you had said it in the same conversation, when in fact, it was separate conversations, correct? That's why it's misleading? >> Correct, and as well as not showing the messages that occurred after, where it [00:06:15] discusses it strictly in the term of being a baseball wife or something like that. >> Speaker 3: Or something like that. Okay, I'm just curious if you know the statistical likelihood of you texting your friend premeditated texts. Saying you wanted him to choke you out and steal his money, take his money, and [00:06:33] him actually choking you out, and those two things not being related. >> Speaker 1: I think those are fair questions. Her answers do not make much sense, I do believe some of this was glossed over by the anchor. [00:06:48] However, she was trying. So Gonzalez would actually grill about specific text and actions during the incident, here it is. >> Speaker 4: But it does cause a lot of questions as to why I was seeking Trevor out. [00:07:06] But at the end of the day, there was nothing about a set up with violence and all of this stuff and getting financial game. It was strictly a 25 or however old I was at the time, girl, trying to get attention from those things and phrasing it in a sarcastic way before we met. [00:07:22] >> Speaker 3: Okay, so I've got a couple other questions on that. So you said in court that he sexually assaulted you on two different encounters, and you say the first time that you say he choked you unconscious. Clearly the insinuation is you didn't like it cuz now you're calling it an assault, [00:07:39] but why did you make the drive back to LA to meet back up with him a second time if this man had just assaulted you by your own account? >> Speaker 4: I think that's a really good question. >> I agree. How I phrased it and how [INAUDIBLE] in the past is that I was so embarrassed by the first encounter that I felt something deep in me to go and [00:07:59] take the power back and to be better and to be what he wanted, in a sense. And so I don't know, there's been a lot of, through all the processes, expert witness, experts on the psychology of what happens when you are assaulted, X, Y, Z. [00:08:17] But there was something in me that felt like I needed to make it better, in a sense. >> Speaker 3: Okay, but you texted Trevor before you met him, telling him you liked rough sex. Then you texted him after your first sexual encounter with him, which you now call an assault. [00:08:33] And according to court records, you told him after that sexual encounter that you had, quote, never been more turned on in your life. That's not [INAUDIBLE] >> Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, the result of the suit in question is important to highlight. So the former major league pitcher, Trevor Bauer, [00:08:53] and the woman who accused him of sexual assault and assault. In 2021, they settled their legal dispute. Bauer's attorney said, and this was October 2nd, both of their respective claims have been withdrawn with prejudice, effective today. [00:09:09] So attorneys Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley said in a statement. Now, I wanna say this I don't believe her, okay? Personally, I don't believe her story, I don't believe her explanation. [00:09:25] I actually believe Bauer. Now that's not common. Typically, I do actually believe people who claim they've been victims because it takes a lot to go through the barrier of doubt that will permeate, [00:09:41] especially in this kind of culture in America. I highlight this story for one very specific reason. As I said, I do not believe the woman and her accusation in this story. A lot of people don't believe her. [00:09:58] The judge did not believe her, okay? It harms actual victims who have to encounter real monsters. And so because of the narrative that can permeate from that, [00:10:21] many times it goes unreported. There are some stats that show over 90% of assaults like this go completely unreported. When an individual makes an accusation, [00:10:37] those accusations have to be taken seriously. When somebody does what I believe this woman did, she weakens the overall requirement of belief that we need in order to make sure more people feel empowered to come forward. [00:10:57] This is a humanity aspect, okay? I'm not sure if the authorities are going to pick this up or not. Naturally, there are many people saying that she should be arrested for the false accusation. I'll let that be.