Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying on government censorship Thursday before the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

Often emotional and heated, Thursday’s hearing came as subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, portrayed what he claimed were examples of censorship, including a White House request to Twitter to remove a race-based post from Kennedy about COVID-19 vaccines.

“It’s why Mr. Kennedy is running for president — it’s to stop, to help us expose and stop what’s going on,” Jordan said.

Jordan argued that a tweet from Kennedy about the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron after he received a COVID-19 vaccine was “just pointing out facts,” The Hill reported.

“When you look at Mr. Kennedy’s tweet, there was nothing there that was factually inaccurate. Hank Aaron, real person, great American, passed away after he got the vaccine. Pointing out, just pointing out facts,” Jordan said.

Vaccines are widely credited with saving millions of lives. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, according to CDC research.

Aaron, a native of Mobile, died in 2021 at age 86, weeks after being vaccinated at the Morehouse School of Medicine.

“Makes me feel wonderful,” Aaron told AP. “I don’t have any qualms about it at all, you know. I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this, you know. It’s just a small thing that can help zillions of people in this country.”

“Mr. Aaron was a public health advocate and worked with us to help bridge the health equity gap in Atlanta and around the world. His passing was not related to the vaccine, nor did he experience any side effects from the immunization. He passed away peacefully in his sleep,” Morehouse told CBS 42.

A watchdog group asked Jordan to drop the invitation to Kennedy after he suggested COVID-19 could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

In those filmed remarks first published by The New York Post, Kennedy said “there is an argument” that COVID-19 “is ethnically targeted” and that it “attacks certain races disproportionately.”

After the video was made public, Kennedy posted on Twitter that his words were twisted and denied ever suggesting that COVID-19 was deliberately engineered to spare Jewish people. He called for the Post’s article to be retracted.