By Tom LoBianco and Christina Bellantoni THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Top White House advisers deflected questions Sunday about former “green jobs czar” Van Jones early Sunday, just hours after he submitted his resignation amid a growing furor over his previous statements and political associations.

Politicians had been calling for Mr. Jones to resign after it was revealed in recent days he signed a petition supporting 9/11 conspiracy theories and called Republicans a series of vulgar epithets in a widely circulated video of a speech he made shortly before joining the Obama White House.

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