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(ABC News) — President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign charged late Thursday that Mitt Romney hoped to use word of his eye-popping $100-million June fundraising haul as, essentially, a staggeringly expensive and carefully orchestrated smokescreen. The remarkable total, if confirmed, was sure to fan the flames of fears, frequently and publicly expressed by Team Obama, that Romney will outraise him.

But Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Romney’s leaked total aimed to “distract” voters from a pair of news reports about the Republican’s personal finances and renewed focus on his health care plan after the Supreme Court upheld “Obamacare.”

“Mitt Romney is trying to distract from a week when he took contradictory positions on the freeloader penalty in the Affordable Care Act and we learned more about his offshored finances in Switzerland, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands,” LaBolt said in an emailed statement.The Obama and Romney camps have struggled to respond to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the fine imposed by both of their health care overhauls on Americans who do not buy health care is a tax. Obama aides have insisted it is a penalty. Romney’s camp initially agreed, but Romney himself later said it was a tax when imposed at the federal level but not at the state level.

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