Between Friday and the second presidential debate on Sunday, it somehow became taken for granted by the media, with a helpful nudge from Democrats, that Republican Donald Trump had sexually assaulted various women, based on some vulgar comments he had made in a private conversation. In fact, he hadn’t.

At the debate, co-moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz, Cooper said to Trump, “You described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals; that is sexual assault.”