Source: Portia Oliver
One of the biggest questions that fans were asking after the Season 2 Finale was who revealed Olivia’s affair with the President. Speculation began immediately after the episode aired. So let’s take a look at some suspects and their motivations for leaking the secret.
Mellie Grant is high on everybody’s list as the person who did the ugly deed by exposing Olivia as her husband’s mistress Mellie would keep the couple apart through increased public scrutiny and ruin Fitz’s plan to divorce her and make Olivia the future First Lady.
Edison Davis could still be smarting over the fact that Olivia did not accept his marriage proposal. He accused her of having an affair with the Fitz in the episode 2×11 “A Criminal, A Whore, An Idiot, and a Liar”. He could get back at Olivia for rejecting him, damage Fitz’s popularity among voters and position himself to run against Fitz in the upcoming election.
Billy Chambers has a long standing vendetta against Olivia Pope and Associates. In season one, he had a team who bugged the hotel where Fitz and Olivia slept together during the campaign. He sat in on a session with Cyrus where a private investigator revealed that Olivia Pope had an affair with someone on the campaign. He could have put the pieces together or Charlie could have helped him.
Secret Service Agent Hal has always been loyal to Mellie he found the Flag pin that Fitz and Olivia left at the Library of Congress and gave it to her. Hal let Mellie know that Fitz was at the hospital with Olivia. He could have exposed the secret out of his sense of devotion to Mellie.
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