Elon Musk Starting a New Political Party?; Alligator Alcatraz Now Open for Deportations
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A new political party could soon be formed in the United States, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk could be the force behind it. The former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has since turned critical of some policies under the Trump administration, and he has now declared his intent to start a new political party for moderate voters.
Meanwhile, Alligator Alcatraz is now open. The facility in the Florida Everglades is going to house illegal immigrants in an area surrounded by alligators.
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| 0:00.0 | Elon Musk could soon be forming a new political party in the U.S. called the America Party. |
| 0:06.3 | And as the head of Tesla and formerly part of the Department of Government Efficiency or Doge, |
| 0:11.9 | Musk has since turned critical of spending policies, specifically in the big, beautiful bill that just passed the Senate. |
| 0:18.9 | Also, two Chinese nationals were just arrested, |
| 0:22.6 | and they're being accused of spying on US military bases, |
| 0:25.9 | US troops, and also trying to recruit others |
| 0:29.7 | to act as agents of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 0:32.8 | I'll be deep diving into these topics and more today. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm the Epitimes Senior investigative |
| 0:37.9 | reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:42.2 | Welcome to Crossroads, a show by the Epic Times America's largest independent |
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| 0:56.6 | hit the like button. It helps get a show out to more people. Now, look, a new political party could |
| 1:02.1 | soon be forming in the United States. And guess who's behind it? Elon Musk. He's not getting |
| 1:09.7 | along so well with Donald Trump right now. He wants to start his own party. |
| 1:14.3 | Now as the head of Tesla, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, |
| 1:18.9 | Elon Musk has since turned kind of critical against some of the mainly spending policies of the |
| 1:24.8 | Trump administration and he has now declared his intent to start a brand new |
| 1:29.3 | political party aiming at the moderate voters in the United States. |
| 1:34.8 | Now first off, back in earlier June, Musk posted a poll asking if it was time for a new party. |
| 1:41.1 | He wrote, is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents |
| 1:46.2 | the 80% in the middle? Now the poll shows 80.4% of people supporting the creation of a third party. |
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