Discovery in this case could be sweeping as Rush would be claiming that he was defamed to the point that he lost an opportunity. The leftys would counter that he had little character to defame.
Regardless. No one knows the story yet. We don’t know if any of this is real as there has been no story posted. The rumor that this thread is based on suggests that Rush voluntarily removed his offer to be a part of a group making this purchase. Do we suggest that it is in Rush’s nature to then start crying and suing?
But the charge is that he was defamed specifically on the ‘racial comments’ issue. General character regarding divorce or use of prescription drugs aren’t germane to that. “Character” is a relative term, he would be proving a specific lie versus financial loss due to that lie.
In other words, you said I said X, because of that, I lost YY dollars, X was a lie, therefore you are responsible for the loss of YY dollars. Character opinions don’t matter, the case relies on if X was a lie, was there a loss, and was this done with malicious intent.
Character opinions are mostly just stuff seen in movies, they are more difficult to use in real life.