By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered a halt to Twitter Inc’s lawsuit against Elon Musk on the eve of trial, giving the billionaire time to finance his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform. The ruling followed days of uncertainty about Musk’s intentions and removed the threat that the erratic entrepreneur would have to testify under oath this week about his claims that Twitter fraudulently misled him. The judge’s order said if Musk, the world’s richest person, failed to close by her Oct. 28 5 p.m. EDT deadline, she would schedule a trial for …