For ME, it was when 51 FBI agents swore an affadavit and said the Hunter Biden laptop was a hoax. My father made me place a decal in my 1949 Ford, SUPPORT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. We had deep respect for J. Edgar Hoover, and LOVED to watch the TV series DRAGNET.
Those weren’t FBI, or not all or even mostly. That was Intelligence Community people, mostly CIA.