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Rachel Maddow says 'implosion' of NRA would be 'biggest' political story if not for impeachment

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow claimed Tuesday night that the "implosion" of the National Rifle Association (NRA) would be the biggest political news story if it weren't for the impeachment of President Trump.

Maddow began by touting the NRA's "legendary" power and major influence over politicians -- and then highlighted the rather turbulent year for the prominent guns rights organization. This included the revelation of Russia agent Maria Butina's attempt to infiltrate the group during the 2016 election and reports of the nonprofit's suspicious spending, which sparked an avalanche of lawsuits and investigations.

"Over the last few months, over the course of this year, we have watched this conservative political behemoth with really no equal in conservative politics, we have watched it collapse at breathtaking speed," Maddow told her viewers.

The liberal cable news star then pointed to the exit of NRA President Lt. Col. Oliver North and how the "drama" that has unfolded unleashed a "cascade of terrible and increasingly damning and embarrassing revelations" on the NRA's spending of donations, including the $200,000 reportedly spent on NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre's clothes and over $240,000 on lavish trips abroad.

"And the reason all of this is not just embarrassing but potentially is real troubling for the NRA is that the NRA is a nonprofit organization and there are rules, there are laws about how a non-profit can spend its members' money," Maddow explained. "Take all of Wayne LaPierre's spending habits with NRA members' money, add that to evidence that hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed from the NRA to its own board members, that's them paying themselves. Add in the red flags about the way the NRA has diverted money from what's supposed to be its charitable foundation. Put it all together and it's no wonder the NRA appears to now be very worried about an ever-widening investigation by the attorney general of the state of New York."

"If the NRA's behavior has been bad enough, New York could conceivably revoke its nonprofit status and shut it down which is what the state of New York just did with Donald Trump's charitable foundation this year."

Maddow claimed that the troubles at the NRA are not only a "huge deal" but a "show-stopping deal," pointing to its shutdown of NRATV.

"The once fearsome NRA, the most powerful entity in conservative politics... I mean, they're in free-fall," Maddow continued. "And I think it's fair to say that in any other time, in any other news environment, the implosion of one of the country's most fearsome conservative political machines... we would be watching that slow-motion car crash endlessly. That would be the biggest political news story in the country for a long time, but with this president in the middle of an impeachment, it's like ... just one more tree falling in the forest."

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Hunter Biden is 'linked to multiple criminal probes involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme'

Hunter Biden is reportedly linked to multiple criminal probes, according to court documents filed in Arkansas.

The papers alleged that the 49-year-old 'is the subject of more than one criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme'.

According to the New York Post, the allegations were filed by private-eye firm, D&A Investigations on Monday in relation to Hunter's paternity case involving his baby mama Lunden Roberts.

One of the claims involves Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company that's at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Trump came under fire for a phone call with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, urging him to investigate Hunter's work with Burisma, while withholding some $400million in military aid.

The new allegations accuse Hunter and business associates of establishing 'bank and financial accounts with Morgan Stanley … for Burisma Holdings Limited … for the money laundering scheme'.

D&A claimed that the accounts showed a value of nearly $6.8million between March 2014 and December 2015, according to the Post.

In addition, the documents allege that Hunter and three associates attempted to con Sioux Native Americans out of $60million through the sale of tribal bonds.

It's unclear what agencies are allegedly investigating Hunter. But shortly after the allegations were filed, a judge struck them down because they were filed by an 'intervener,' according to the Post.

News of the alleged investigations comes just a day after the financial information for Roberts was released exclusively to DailyMail.com.

On Sunday, Roberts' financial information from the last five years was obtained by DailyMail.com. In the documents, the Lancaster & Lancaster Law Firm, which represents Roberts, reveals that the 28-year-old received money from a company owned by Hunter from May 2018 to November 2018.

'She never received a tax document for these payments,' her attorneys wrote, adding that the undisclosed amount of payments are reflected on her bank records.

According to the documents, Roberts also worked for Hunter and submitted pay stubs as proof of employment along with a health insurance card that he reportedly provided her.

Roberts continued to make the case for her paternity suit by outlining other sources of income that she's received, including $1,700 that her father paid in fees for her to graduate college and her annual Christmas bonus that she receives from her current employer.

'Occasionally, and without regular reoccurrence, the plaintiff has been provided insignificant amounts of money - what some may classify as "petty cash" - by her parents for her or her daughter's needs,' the document reads.

Roberts said that family and friends have given her and her child toys and other things, but 'these events are infrequent, and while cherished and very appreciated, are not gifts of monetary value'.

Hunter, who has been laying low in Los Angeles during his bitter paternity dispute with Roberts, was seen for the first time on Friday since DailyMail.com revealed that his new South African wife Melissa Cohen, 32, is pregnant and in her second trimester.

As Hunter lays low on the West Coast, Trump demanded that he be called as a witness in his impeachment trial since he is at the center of the trial based on his role with Burisma.

And apparently, his father Joe Biden has had enough of the focus on his son, lashing out during Thursday's presidential candidate debate, claiming Republicans are 'attacking' Hunter.

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Christianity Today sees surge in subscriptions after calling for Trump's removal
"A stereotypical response is 'thank you, thank you, thank you' with a string of a hundred exclamation points"

Mark Galli, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, the prominent evangelical magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham, said Sunday that the magazine has seen a surge in new prescriptions since it published his blistering editorial calling for President Trump's removal from office.

"A stereotypical response is 'thank you, thank you, thank you' with a string of a hundred exclamation points — 'you've said what I've been thinking but haven't been able to articulate, I'm not crazy,'" Galli told MSNBC, adding, "We have lost subscribers, but we've had three times as many people start to subscribe."

Galli and his magazine were condemned by nearly 200 evangelical leaders following his editorial, which argued Trump's removal was "not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments."

The op-ed was published shortly after the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. At the heart of the charges are accusations that Trump withheld nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine to pressure that nation to launch investigations into his potential rivals, including Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, ahead of the 2020 election.

In his editorial, Galli didn't just criticize Trump. He also called out the president's devout Christian base.





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"To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior," he wrote.

In an interview Sunday with CBS News, Galli defended his call to remove Trump from office and explained that he was not making a "political judgment" but rather a "moral" one.

"It strikes me as strange that people who take the teachings of Jesus Christ seriously, the teachings of the Ten Commandments seriously, that we can't at least say publicly and out loud in front of God and everybody, that this man's character is deeply, deeply concerning to us," he said.

Galli again acknowledged that the president has delivered many victories to the evangelical community with policy decisions on abortion and religious freedom, but added that he doesn't believe evangelicals can "in good conscience" continue the "trade-off" of accepting Trump because of his policy positions.

"He gives us what we need on pro-life, but he's got this bad character. The fundamental argument I'm making is: We crossed a line somewhere in the impeachment hearings, at least in my mind — that balance no longer works," Galli said.

Galli's editorial prompted outrage from Trump, who condemned Christianity Today as a "far-left magazine," as well as a statement from Rev. Franklin Graham, who claimed his father would have disagreed with Galli's position.

"It's obvious that Christianity Today has moved to the left and is representing the elitist wing of evangelicalism," Graham said. "Is President Trump guilty of sin? Of course he is, as were all past presidents and as each one of us are, including myself. Therefore, let's pray for the President as he continues to lead the affairs of our nation."


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Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump stand their ground over impeachment

So much for holiday cheer.

President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exchanged tweets on Monday over her holding up delivering articles of impeachment to the GOP-controlled Senate until a fair impeachment trial can be guaranteed.

Trump kicked off the exchange when he criticized the California Democrat for conducting an unfair impeachment investigation in the House.

"Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so," Trump posted on Twitter. "She lost Congress once, she will do it again!"

Pelosi then weighed in on Trump's tweet.

"The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct. President Trump blocked his own witnesses and documents from the House, and from the American people, on phony complaints about the House process," the speaker wrote. "What is his excuse now?"

Pelosi is temporarily holding up the two articles of impeachment the House voted on last Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was coordinating the Senate trial with White House lawyers and declared he wouldn't be an impartial juror.

"We would hope there would be a fair process just as I hope they would honor the Constitution," Pelosi said of Republicans in the Senate during her weekly news conference last Thursday.

McConnell, appearing Monday on "Fox & Friends," said he's in no rush to get the articles.

"She's apparently trying to tell us how to run the trial," the Kentucky Republican said. "You know, I'm not anxious to have this trial. So if she wants to hold onto the papers, go right ahead."

Until then, he said both sides remain deadlocked.

"Look, we're at an impasse. We can't do anything until the speaker sends the papers over, so everybody enjoy the holidays," he said.

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Doug Jones says impeachment must be above electoral politics
"Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that."

Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection, on Sunday dismissed concerns that a vote to remove President Donald Trump from office would cost him his Senate seat.

"Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that," the Alabama senator told Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC's "This Week."

"This has to do with the future of the presidency and how we want our presidents to conduct themselves. It has all to do with the future of the Senate and how the Senate should handle impeachment and articles of impeachment that come over. That's how I'm looking at this," he added. "If I did everything based on a pure political argument, all you'd need is a computer to mash a button. That's just not what this country is about. It's not what the founders intended to do."

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Jones was asked if he might be one of the Democrats that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believes will defect from the party and vote to acquit the president. "I have no idea what Mitch McConnell's talking about these days," he said.

Jones said he needs a "full and complete picture," including documents and testimony the White House has blocked, to decide.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said he wants both sides to have a fair chance at making their case before a vote in an impeachment trial.

"We can obsess on this impeachment. We can obsess on the trial. But what I'm trying to do is — I'm trying to get the American people the truth of what all happened," the Wisconsin Republican said. " Something very strange has happened. You got 40, 45 percent of the American public that completely support the president. That support is strengthening. Forty, 45 percent that really don't — obviously, you know, he's not their cup of tea, let's put it that way. Ten to 20 percent of the American people in the middle are just asking what was going on. I'm trying to answer those questions."

Jones said he is still waiting to "see if the dots get connected" on Trump withholding military aid in Ukraine in exchange for investigations into his political rivals.

"If that is the case, then I think it's a serious matter and it's an impeachable matter. But if those dots aren't connected and there are other explanations that I think are consistent with innocence, I will go that way, too," he said.

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McConnell All But Declares There'll Be No Movement On Impeachment Until After Holidays

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled on Monday there would be no movement on impeachment until after Congress returns to session in January.


Speaking to reporters in Kentucky, McConnell was tight-lipped about impeachment proceedings and how the Senate intends to handle the articles once they come over from the House, pointing local reporters instead to a "Fox and Friends" interview he gave on Monday morning.

"I think we'll find out when we come back in session where we are," he said, signaling that there'd be no decision on a Senate trial until after the holidays.

McConnell also jabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for delaying the transmission of the articles. Pelosi has indicated she would send the articles over once she knows how the Senate plans to conduct its trial, so she'll have a better idea of how many impeachment managers to assign to the task. Republicans have seized on this delay as a sign of Democrats getting weak-kneed about their case.

"We can't take up a matter we don't have, so hopefully they'll be on the way over at some point," he said.

When asked about how impeachment proceedings might impact his next election, McConnell was honest: "Who knows," he said.

Last week the leader of the upper chamber told reporters that he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were at an impasse over how to handle impeachment. Schumer sent a letter to colleagues on Monday, saying he wanted four witnesses to speak at a robust Senate trial and requested documents relevant to Ukraine be provided as well. McConnell has indicated he doesn't want Democrats or Republicans to call in witnesses, but he says his caucus has not quite reached a decision. That indication appears to be in contrast with what President Trump has publicly claimed he'd like to see.

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How to hack the color of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lightsabers

When you go to the Star Wars parks at Disneyland or Disney World, there's a place where you get to craft your own lightsaber for the not-low-at-all price of $200. You get to build the hilt and choose your kyber crystal, which Star Wars geeks know determines the color of your blade.

Officially, you're only allowed to pick from the four colors seen in the movies: blue, green, purple, and red. Unofficially, you can actually make it any color you want.

Gene Chorba, a developer at Riot Games, tweeted Friday that those kyber crystals actually house a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag that determines the color of the blade. With the right technology, you can actually rewrite the RFID to get a different color.

Riot Gene :So the Disney build your own lightsaber system uses RFID codes to tell the lightsaber what color to display.
Which means if you have an RFID read/writer you can swap through all the colors without buying each crystal.

That's right, you can get colors that aren't even seen in the movies.

All you need is an RFID reader/writer, which can be found online for as low as $20. If you want to see how to do it yourself, this video is a helpful tutorial on how to use an RFID reader/writer and how to change the color of the blade.

While Chorba tweeted out codes for two extra colors, orange (3074) and teal (3077), YouTuber Kyle Bridges lists a few more codes to make your blade white (3072) or yellow (3075) as well as the standard colors red (3073), green (3076), blue (3086), and purple (3079).

I neither have one of these lightsabers nor an RFID reader/writer to test this out, but the video proves that it works and isn't too difficult to do at home.

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By the time The Rise of Skywalker introduces Poe's presumed ex-lover Zorii Bliss, who looks like the ferocious spawn of Catwoman and a Power Ranger, he's ready to say the quiet part out loud and ask to kiss her (denied), and straight up proposition her with a raise of his eyebrow at the end of the movie (also denied, which is kind of hot in its own way). Thank god for that, because without Poe's suggestive nodding, there's almost nothing else horny about this movie.

It seems impossible that the same film that makes Reylo canon — Reylo, for christ's sake — has so little to offer on the horny scale. Flash back to The Last Jedi, which charged Rey and Kylo Ren's almost–hand touch with enough ambient horndoggery to launch an entire genre of fanfiction (Force sex! It's a thing now!), and compare that lusty subtext with The Rise of Skywalker's Reylo smooch, which is sandwiched between both kissers literally being dead in a coliseum filled with smushed-up monks. Sure, it's kind of biblical, but not in that way. No points awarded, and everyone involved should be ashamed.

Finally, and this is what zaps every last trace of horniness from The Rise of Skywalker, there's Palpatine. Crusty, musty Emperor Palpatine and the horrifying news that he absolutely fucked. Regardless of how anyone feels about Rey being Sheev Palpatine's granddaughter from a story perspective, the facts of human reproduction require ol' Palpy to have canonically banged his way to natural fatherhood — the same Palpatine who appears in the movie as a dessicated corpse and whose whole aesthetic since The Phantom Menace has been "caftan-wearing creeper Nazi."

Just to clarify that visual: Rey was born in 15 ABY and her flashback dad doesn't look older than 35, so that's Revenge of the Sith–era Sheev Palpatine laying groundwork for his senatorial takeover by day and laying pipe to some random space lady by night. With whom was Palpatine getting down to pound town? Was she nice? Was it freaky? A lot of the Sith-adjacent folks in the extended media have a whole fetishwear thing going on so that's why it might have been freaky. He colonized her Unknown Regions. Explored her Outer Rim. This is awful. It's negative horny and Star Wars can't come back from this, even if Palpatine did.

Not even Poe Dameron's smoldering stare can outweigh the fact that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's biggest twist only happened because Sheev Palpatine had unprotected sex. The simmering horniness of The Last Jedi was a one-time miracle of the Force, and it's Palpa-turtles all the way down from there. The Force might be balanced by the end of the movie, but The Rise of Skywalker's horny scale is wildly and forever skewed towards the dark side. Thanks a lot, Sheev.

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How horny is 'The Rise of Skywalker'? Not horny enough.

This post contains deeply weird spoilers for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Read at your own risk, for at least two reasons.

It's been two years since The Last Jedi shocked the world by being the first Star Wars movie to be horny on main. Shirtless Kylo Ren Force Skyped Rey in the middle of the night to seduce her (to the dark side, but still), Maz Kanata casually insinuated that she banged a "master breaker," Luke did some weird stuff with milk, and John Boyega entered the movie naked and leaking in a see-through rubber suit. Now that The Rise of Skywalker is here, those who saw The Last Jedi's sexual supertext must be wondering: is this one horny too? And if so, how horny are we talking?

Not horny enough, to be honest. The Rise of Skywalker is sure to stir up discourse on what Star Wars means to fans, how well it stuck the landing, and a host of other topics everyone will surely debate in a calm and civil fashion, but there's very little in the movie that will make anyone wonder "was that scene horny, or am I disgusting?" It's disappointing, really. The Rise of Skywalker aims for horny, falls short, and then...well. Then it ruins everything. But first, the good news.

One great thing The Rise of Skywalker does is put the bulk of the movie's horniness on the square shoulders of its strongest chemical asset: Poe Dameron. Poe knows the galaxy might end in a matter of days and pursues saving the world and getting laid with equal romantic abandon. Part of the reason nearly all of his interactions read as horny is because Poe is played by Oscar Isaac, who could steal your wallet and call it flirting with zero pushback, but the other part is that he's just...actively generating pants-stirring situations the whole time.

Poe gets in a verbal spat with Rey that could just be two strong personalities clashing, but also, what if they kissed? He falls into a sand cave inches away from Rey's face and you know what, they could have kissed then, too. The good Ship FinnPoe is unfortunately scuttled in canon, but that was never going to stop Poe throwing long, fiery looks at his BF(F) and holding every hug with Finn for as long as the audience needs to get the message.

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Another Trump phone security fail

A new New York Times report revealed another phone security lapse from the Trump administration.

On Thursday, the Times reported on some disturbing findings from a dataset of tens of billions of location pings from more than 12 million phones. And on Friday, the Times said it managed to track the movements of Trump using that data.

According to the report, the phone in question likely belonged to a U.S. Secret Service agent in Trump's entourage. The Times tracked Trump's movements in southern Florida during one of his trips to his Mar-A-Lago estate, this one with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

From there, the reporters were able to identify the phone owner's home address on a map and search publicly available information on the agent, including name and family details. This is terrifying, not just in relation to the president, but to everyone who uses a phone.

But it also underscores how this White House has continually failed to get its act together when it comes to securely using technology. And this incident is tied to one of the Trump administration's other major security lapses.

The data obtained by the Times is from periods throughout 2016 and 2017. Abe visited Mar-A-Lago with Trump in February 2017. During that visit, North Korea launched a ballistic missile. The incident interrupted a dinner Trump and Abe were having, surrounded by other Mar-A-Lago members in the club's private dining room.

Trump not only took calls about the incident in that dining room instead of a more secure location, but members of Trump's team used their phone flashlights to cast light on secure documents so they could be read. Given that smart phones, like laptops, are vulnerable to having their cameras hacked and used for spying, this was, to say the least, not a great idea.

It's not known if the agent the Times tracked was at the dinner when the North Korea launch occurred, but the Times notes that Trump and Abe had a "working dinner" on the night they tracked the phone. Even if these two dinners were on different nights of Abe's visit, they occurred during the same visit.

The alarming tracking data revealed by the Times is of a different nature than Trump's brazen flaunting of other basic phone security precautions. But they both reflect a lackadaisical attitude taken by the administration toward security that puts the president and the country at risk. And while they may not be able to completely fix these issues, they could at least take some steps to protect themselves.

As the Times points out about the tracking data, "Agencies can limit how their employees use location-sharing apps and services, but that doesn't mean those guidelines will be strictly enforced — or extended to personal devices." The Times doesn't say what phone the agent was using, or if any efforts were made to prevent tracking it, but it's clear that if they tried, they didn't try hard enough.

You'd think that the Secret Service, mere feet away from the president at all times, would do their best not to expose their location. Just as you'd expect the president and his administration to use secure phones and not expose sensitive data to bad actors, even if he finds some security measures, like swapping in new phones, "inconvenient."

And the president continues to flaunt these security issues, as the New York Times reported last year. Trump refuses to use a more secure White House landline, the report says, opting instead for less secure cell phone lines that intelligence officials believes are being spied on by Chinese and Russian agents.

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Devin Nunes: FISA court's behavior 'totally inappropriate,' Congress must fix it

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court acted inappropriately in the Russia investigation.

Nunes made the comments on Tuesday on "The Story," shortly after FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer issued a rare rebuke of the FBI over its surveillance-application process.

Host Martha MacCallum asked Nunes if he agreed with Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano -- who said the FISA court should be eliminated.

"We need a process," Nunes said. "So I'm not going to speak in absolutes. But I will say that the way the courts conducted themselves is totally inappropriate. They ignored clear evidence that we presented to them that -- remember, they had this, the American people didn't have it -- we had seen, they had it, they did absolutely nothing about it."

"They have left really Congress no choice but to have to step in and fix this process," he added.

The court is comprised of 11 member judges who are simultaneously active federal judges in various districts throughout the country, including the District of Columbia, Mississippi, Oregon, New Jersey and Maine. Collyer is a George W. Bush-nominated federal judge in Washington D.C., whom Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appointed to the FISA court.

MacCallum asked Nunes whether any particular judges on the court warrant further scrutiny in that regard.

The lawmaker did not name any judges specifically but told the host the panel may not be being completely forthright about what transpired over the course of the multiple approvals to surveil former Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

"When you have the evidence that we present to them and they do nothing about it, and now they come out -- and I have to look closely at the letter that they sent out today, the statement that they sent out, because I'm not so sure that they are being entirely truthful."

In her statement, Collyer gave the FBI until Jan. 10 to come up with solutions, in the wake of findings from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.

"The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the [Office of Inspector General] report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above," Collyer wrote in her four-page order. "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable."

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Máy sấy Electrolux 8 kg EDS805KQWA

Thiết kế hiện đại, gam màu tinh tế

Nổi bật với bảng điều khiển nút nhấn có đèn LED hiển thị, Electrolux 8 kg EDS805KQWA thuộc kiểu máy sấy lồng ngang, mang phong cách châu Âu. Đồng thời, máy sấy cũng sở hữu gam màu trắng tinh tế, hứa hẹn trở thành nội thất hiện đại và kết hợp tinh tế với các nội thất khác trong không gian nhà bạn.

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Với những hộ gia đình có khoảng từ 3 - 5 người, máy sấy Electrolux EDS805KQWA đáp ứng tốt cho nhu cầu sấy quần áo với khối lượng đến 8 kg chỉ trong một lần.

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Công nghệ Vapour Refresh giúp quần áo sau khi giặt không cần phải ủi nhiều vì giảm nhăn tới 32%, cũng như kéo dài thời gian sử dụng và làm đồ luôn trong tình trạng mới.

Tiết kiệm điện, sấy khô nhanh với công nghệ sấy thông hơi

Nhờ tích hợp công nghệ sấy thông hơi, Electrolux EDS805KQWA mang lại hiệu quả tốc độ sấy khô nhanh và còn sử dụng ít năng lượng hơn với dòng máy sấy ngưng tụ nên tiết kiệm điện cũng như chi phí cho gia đình bạn.

Sử dụng dễ dàng bởi hệ thống cảm biến thông minh Smart Sensor

Với cảm biến thông minh Smart Sensor, máy sấy Electrolux 8 kg có thể tự động đưa ra thời gian sấy phù hợp với khối lượng quần áo. Điều này giúp cho người sử dụng, dù lớn tuổi hay không hiểu rõ về công nghệ, có thể thao tác nhanh, thực hiện dễ dàng ngay trên máy.

Không chiếm nhiều diện tích không gian với khả năng úp ngược máy

Khả năng úp ngược máy, Electrolux EDS805KQWA giúp bạn tiết kiệm được phần diện tích không gian đáng kể trong nhà. Nghĩa là máy sấy này có thể được úp ngược ngay trên máy giặt, mà không làm ảnh hưởng đến khả năng hoạt động bình thường của máy.

Giảm nhăn quần áo nhờ tính năng sấy đảo chiều

Electrolux 8 kg EDS805KQWA còn được trang bị thêm công nghệ sấy đảo chiều, giúp cho quần áo được sấy khô tơi ra mà không bị xoắn vào nhau, và nhất là mang lại hiệu quả giảm nhăn sau khi sấy.

Tiện lợi với chức năng hẹn giờ sấy

Máy sấy 8kg này của hãng Electrolux còn được tích hợp chức năng hẹn giờ sấy, giúp người dùng cài đặt linh hoạt thời gian sấy mà mình muốn, nên mang lại nhiều thời gian rảnh, nghỉ ngơi cho bản thân mình.

Đánh giá chung, máy sấy Electrolux 8 kg EDS805KQWA phù hợp cho gia đình có khoảng 3 - 5 người với mức giá dễ chịu, kèm với nhiều công nghệ, tính năng hiện đại và kiểu thiết kế bắt mắt, sang trọng. Đặt biệt là thiết bị hỗ trợ tốt cho việc làm khô quần áo tại những khu vực lạnh, ít nắng.

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