John Bolton book is too little, too late for bipartisan critics who say he blew his chance to speak up when it mattered

John Bolton’s controversial tell-all “The Room Where it Happened” is slated to finally hit bookstores June 23. But will anyone line up to pay for it?

While a press release Friday promised President Trump’s former National Security Affairs adviser would deliver dirt on his former boss, the overwhelming consensus on Twitter is that Bolton had his chance to speak-up during the president’s impeachment hearing and no one should buy his story now.

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“F--k you John Bolton," tweeted former Republican congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois. "Your country called back in January/February. You had an opportunity to testify. To say under oath how unfit this man is. To help remove this man from office. BUT YOU SAID NO. Screw your book.”

A lot of Twitter users punctuated their comments with the hashtag #f--kjohnbolton Friday. There was also a widespread consensus that political junkies should go out of their way to avoid shelling out cash for the tome.

California Congressman Ted Lieu is no fan of the president, but he seems less than interested in what Bolton has to say in a hardcover book, which is preselling for $22.77 on Amazon.

“John Bolton is an example of a purported public servant who not only put party over country, he put his own profits over country,” Lieu wrote. “Despicable.”

George Conway, whose wife Kellyanne is a counselor to the president, agrees that Bolton missed his chance to be a hero.

“Imagine the book John Bolton could have written had he done right by the country—by telling the American people and Congress everything he knew and by testifying at the impeachment trial," the conservative lawyer wrote. “Now *THAT* would have been a best-seller for the ages.”

Conway said he was “utterly mystified” by Bolton’s refusal to testify, then to expect people to buy his book six months later.

"He isn’t afraid of Trump, Conway wrote. “He clearly thinks Trump is unfit and committed high crimes and misdemeanors.”

“The Liddle’est President” author Majid M. Padellan wondered who Bolton audience will be when the book goes on sale.

“John Bolton’s testimony could’ve made a HUGE difference in the impeachment trials. He knew of crimes being committed, but said NOTHING,” he tweeted. “Trumpers won’t/can’t read it. Liberals DESPISE him. Who the heck is going to buy THAT g-ddamn book?”

David Frum, a pundit and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, agreed that Bolton could have shaped the nation’s future rather then penning a book about its recent history.

“If only there were somebody in a position to share this information at a time when it might have made a difference,” he tweeted.

He called the book “'The Room Where It Happened’ by ‘The Guy Who Said Nothing When It Did.’”

Former Trump campaign adviser and Harvard Law graduate A.J. Delgado sarcastically congratulated Bolton on being able to unite Democrats and Republicans.

“I think not-giving-a-sh-t about #Bolton’s book or what he has to say is the one unifying arc of 2016 on which all agree,” she wrote.

“Space Force” actress Jane Lynch blasted Bolton.

“Every once in a while I think about John Bolton and how he missed the moment because he got greedy and power-hungry and decided to play it out longer and ended up nowhere and with nothing,” she tweeted.

A preview of Bolton’s book quotes the hawkish 71-year-old statesman saying the Trump’s use of diplomacy for personal gain, which led to his impeachment, wasn’t uncommon.

“I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton wrote.

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