The Bangladeshi immigrant who blew up a pipe bomb in a crowded pedestrian tunnel under Times Square was convicted on all counts Tuesday afternoon — then blamed his failed attack on President Trump.
“I was angry with Donald Trump. He said he would bomb the Middle East,” Akayed Ullah said after jurors left the courtroom.
Ullah, 28, also denied trying to kill commuters for ISIS, as he confessed to an NYPD detective following the Dec. 11 blast.
“I didn’t do it for ISIS group,” he said.
“They try to put me in a group which I don’t support.”
Manhattan federal Judge Richard Sullivan repeatedly interrupted Ullah as the Brooklyn resident blurted out his remarks.
“I don’t think right now is the time for a statement,” Sullivan told him, adding that he could say his piece at his April 5 sentencing.
He faces up to life in prison.
Ullah was the only person injured when the bomb strapped to his body exploded in an underground walkway connecting the city’s busiest subway station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
The eight-woman, four-man jury found Ullah guilty of six felonies, including using a weapon of mass destruction and supporting a foreign terrorist organization.
The evidence against him included surveillance video that shows him falling to the floor following the explosion.
Ullah’s defense lawyers admitted during the one-week trial that he detonated the device but claimed he did it to kill himself — not others.
They also argued — in an effort to avoid a potential life sentence — that he wasn’t motivated by ISIS, but rather was trying to protest American policies that he felt were hurting Muslims.
Defense lawyer Amy Gallicchio also told jurors during summations that the blast came at the very moment that the crowd around him had dissipated.
“If harming anyone other than himself was his intention, he missed the perfect opportunity,” she said.
“He chose the exact moment when he could take his own life without hurting anyone else.”
But prosecutors urged the jury to convict, citing a Facebook message Ullah posted right before the blast in which he said, “O Trump, you failed to protect your nation,” followed by the word “baqiah,” which prosecutors said was “a slogan for ISIS.”
“It was about martyrdom, not suicide,” prosecutor Shawn Crowley said during her closing arguments.
“Don’t let him run from what he has done.”
During the trial, NYPD Det. Daniel Byrne, who interrogated Ullah at Bellevue Hospital, testified that he admitted acting on behalf of the blood-thirsty terror group.
“I did it for the Islamic State. I did it for Allah,” Byrne said the cabbie-turned-electrician told him.
Outside court, juror Linda Artis said she had no doubt Ullah detonated the device, but hadn’t been convinced he did it in the name of ISIS.
Artis, 38, said learning about Ullah’s remarks to the judge made her “feel a little bad.”
“Because that’s where I was on the fence for a long time,” she said.