evidence: A viral Facebook post shared over 1,700 times claims Utah started the petition process to recall Republican Sen. Mitt Romney. While online petitions have called for Romney to resign or be censured, Check Your Fact didn’t find a recall petition with over 120,000 signatures. U.S. senators can be removed through impeachment or expulsion, not a recall. The claim that Romney faces a recall petition in Utah started circulating widely after the senator voted on Feb. 13 to convict former President Donald Trump in the second impeachment trial. Trump was impeached and later acquitted on one count of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to The Washington Post.