I don't know what dictionary Johnson, and Huckabee Sanders, use but nothing was "vetted" during the campaign. The charges were made and the electorate decided that they weren't important enough to make them vote against Trump. There was no investigation or anything like that. Charges were made, charges were denied or, in the case of the Access Hollywood tape, admitted and apologized for. And the campaign moved on.
Really?!? A woman who had nothing other than “vote for me, I am a woman and Trump is a sexist” didn’t do everything in her multi-billion dollar funded campaign to drive this home by bringing forth every accuser they could find? Even Gloria Allred got in on the act. They had a tape of Trump making a vulgar and offensive comment for goodness sakes!!
The problem was that whatever they accused Trump of it looked damned transparent in its political motivation. Trump fought the allegations tooth and nail and promised to sue (probably would have if he wasn’t elected) and some of the accusers who pressed their stories, had them start to fall apart. One fled the country.
The final problem was the perceived puppet master behind the accusers, Hillary, had some real hypocrisy problems. How could she suddenly claim to be a champion for women?
So after having failed with Russia-Trump collusion the left has moved on to “#me to” in order to brimg Trump down. They saw a way to turn the absolute decades of depravity in their own party and amongst their donor class into an advantage. Faster than you can say 1, 2, 3 sexal misconduct is now conflated with any sexual activity or encounter with the opposite sex that, in hindsight (and with enough financial motivation), makes or should have made the accuser in question uncomfortable. How they felt at the time is irrelevant.
How dare Trump ogle a beautiful woman!!! We need this to be fully vetted. What is that?!?!
Did you fall asleep during the campaign? The accusations were more vetted than Watergate - by the media, Clinton war room, and most likely the FBI.