Presidential candidate Joe Biden, the frontrunner in the Democratic fields, has adopted an aggressive strategy to contain potentially damaging fallout from the whistleblower scandal roiling Washington, according to a report from Politico.

The Biden campaign’s new media blitz is designed to prevent negative coverage of the kind Hillary Clinton received during her failed presidential bid, in which she was dogged by questions regarding her use of a private server for classified government emails, according to campaign strategists.

The whistleblower scandal involves possible misconduct on the part of President Trump, who it is speculated may have withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate alleged improprieties on the part of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The latter had business holdings with a Ukrainian natural gas company at the time that Biden was heading U.S. policy regarding the country.

“You saw what happened to Hillary in 2016 with all of the ridiculous coverage about her emails,” said one Biden advisor. “That’s not going to happen with us. We learned.”

The strategy was on display during Biden’s heated exchange on September 22 with Fox News reporter Pete Doocy. When Doocy asked Biden a question regarding the candidate’s alleged dealings regarding the Ukraine, Biden immediately attacked Doocy for not paying attention to the offenses which may have been committed by Trump.

“You should be looking at Trump,” Biden said in an exchange captured on video and later posted on Biden’s Twitter feed. “Trump’s doing this because he knows I’ll beat him like a drum. He’s using the abuse of power, and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me.”

Biden then told Doocy to “ask the right question.”

Ironically, the strategy of criticizing journalists involves taking a leaf out of what is generally considered Trump’s playbook.